Post by dionysios on Sept 8, 2015 1:05:10 GMT 1
These books are listed in chronological order. Many books are omitted from this list which contain merely a brief passage or two anathematizing antipodes or asserting a flat earth. Only ancient Christian books entirely or significantly devoted to cosmology are listed. All contain useful cosmological knowledge, and none are anti-flat earth. Those annotated with a plus sign (+) overtly advocate a flat earth. Where extant, links to online editions will be added.
Book of Enoch +
(Corrupted over time and therefore officially rejected as scripture at the Council of Laodicea in A.D. 378, but perhaps yet containing useful cosmological information)
By Saint Enoch
Cosmological Tract +
By Saint Dionysios the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens and Paris
Chronicon
By Saint Methodius, Bishop of Patara
Divine Institutes +
(contains significant cosmology section)
By Lactantius
Hexaemeron (Six Day Creation)
By Saint Basil of Caesarea
Homilies on Genesis
By Severian of Gabala
(a disciple of Saint John Chrysostom's who followed his school of thought although later in life becoming his mentor's enemy and prosecutor for reasons unrelated to these ardently flat earth commentaries on Genesis)
Cosmography of Aethicus of Istria +
Edited by Saint Jerome of Bethlehem
Hexaemeron
By Saint Ambrose of Milan
Christian Topography +
By Cosmas Indicopleustes
Sacred Geography
By Saint Hilary of Poitiers
Book of Enoch +
(Corrupted over time and therefore officially rejected as scripture at the Council of Laodicea in A.D. 378, but perhaps yet containing useful cosmological information)
By Saint Enoch
Cosmological Tract +
By Saint Dionysios the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens and Paris
Chronicon
By Saint Methodius, Bishop of Patara
Divine Institutes +
(contains significant cosmology section)
By Lactantius
Hexaemeron (Six Day Creation)
By Saint Basil of Caesarea
Homilies on Genesis
By Severian of Gabala
(a disciple of Saint John Chrysostom's who followed his school of thought although later in life becoming his mentor's enemy and prosecutor for reasons unrelated to these ardently flat earth commentaries on Genesis)
Cosmography of Aethicus of Istria +
Edited by Saint Jerome of Bethlehem
Hexaemeron
By Saint Ambrose of Milan
Christian Topography +
By Cosmas Indicopleustes
Sacred Geography
By Saint Hilary of Poitiers