TY - BOOK AU - Erik Thaddeus Walters PY - 2021 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - «Unitas» in Latin Antiquity T2 - Four Centuries of Continuity UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107994 N2 - Following a survey of 20th century scholarship’s various interpretations of unitas as employed by the mid-3rd century CE’s Cyprian of Carthage, this volume introduces an innovative hermeneutic that utilizes a contextual analysis of all 233 instances of the term meaning «oneness/unity» in extant Latin literature’s Pagan and ante-Nicene Christian authors from the 1st century BCE through the early 4th century CE. A synthesis subsequently is rendered possible, and continuity in the term’s meaning without change, confusion, or contradiction remains a hallmark. KW - Baptismal Controversy, Ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Patristic, Unity LA - English ER -