dionysius
Against the Sabellians
Fragments of the books written against Sabellian teaching about the Father and the Son.
Exegetical Fragments: A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes.
Surviving comments on the opening of Ecclesiastes and its verdict on things under the sun.
Exegetical Fragments: An Exposition of Luke XXII. 46, Etc
A short exposition of the agony in the garden and the disciples found sleeping.
Exegetical Fragments: Of the One Substance
A fragment on the one substance shared by the Father and the Son.
Exegetical Fragments: On John VIII. 12
A brief comment on Christ as the light of the world.
Exegetical Fragments: On Luke XXII. 42, Etc
A comment on the prayer that the cup might pass, and on the two wills in Christ.
Exegetical Fragments: On the Reception of the Lapsed to Penitence
A pastoral fragment on how those who fell in persecution may be received back.
Exegetical Fragments: The Gospel According to Luke. An Interpretation.
Surviving portions of Dionysius' interpretation of the Gospel of Luke.
Extant Fragments: Against Bishop Germanus.
A defence of his own conduct during persecution, answering a fellow bishop's criticism.
Extant Fragments: Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome.
A letter to his namesake at Rome, on the questions then dividing the churches.
Extant Fragments: From His Fourth Festival Epistle.
A portion of an Easter letter to the churches of Egypt.
Extant Fragments: From the Books Against Sabellius. On the Notion that Matter is Ungenerated.
A fragment arguing that matter is not eternal but made, against the Sabellian teachers.
Extant Fragments: From the Books on Nature.
Fragments of a work on nature, answering the atomists and arguing for design.
Extant Fragments: From the Two Books on the Promises.
A fragment on the millennial promises, and on the authorship of the book of Revelation.
Extant Fragments: The Epistle to Bishop Basilides.
Answers to a bishop's practical questions, including when the Easter fast should end.
Extant Fragments: To Cornelius the Roman Bishop.
A letter to Cornelius of Rome during the troubles that followed the persecution.
Extant Fragments: To Dionysius.
A short letter to another Dionysius, on the affairs of the churches.
Extant Fragments: To Domitius and Didymus.
An account of what the Alexandrian church suffered when the persecution came.
Extant Fragments: To Fabius, Bishop of Antioch.
A famous letter recording the martyrdoms at Alexandria, and the courage of the very old.
Extant Fragments: To Hermammon.
A review of the emperors in turn, and of how each of them treated the church.
Extant Fragments: To Hierax, a Bishop in Egypt.
Alexandria under civil war and plague, and the Christians who stayed to nurse the dying.
Extant Fragments: To Novatus.
A short and gentle letter urging Novatus to step back from dividing the church.
Extant Fragments: To Philemon, a Presbyter.
How Dionysius read the books of those he disagreed with, and why he thought it right to.
Extant Fragments: To Sixtus II.
A further letter to Sixtus, continuing the correspondence on baptism and the churches.
Extant Fragments: To Sixtus, Bishop.
Written to Sixtus of Rome about a man long troubled over the validity of his own baptism.
Extant Fragments: To the Alexandrians.
A pastoral letter to his own city, written amid plague and civil disorder.
Extant Fragments: Which is the First on the Subject of Baptism Addressed to Stephen, Bishop of Rome.
The first of the letters to Stephen of Rome, urging peace in the dispute over baptism.