Marius Victorinus c. 290 AD – c. 364 AD
Marius Victorinus (c. 290 AD – c. 364 AD) was a Roman philosopher of the Ancient era, associated with Platonism and Christian Philosophy.
Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman rhetorician, grammarian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and Latin Christian theologian whose late conversion in Rome around 355 became a pattern that helped inspire Augustine's own. Honored with a public statue in the Forum of Trajan as a leading teacher of rhetoric, he translated some of the works of Plotinus and Porphyry into Latin and so brought Neoplatonic thought to a Latin-reading Christian audience for the first time. His treatises against Arianism applied a Neoplatonic conceptual vocabulary to Trinitarian theology, and his commentaries on Cicero and on the letters of Paul shaped subsequent Latin philosophical theology.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Roman
- Era
- Ancient
- Movements
- Platonism, Christian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“The Word is the act of being itself.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“God is being, and being is the source of all that is.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“Trinity is unity in motion, distinction without division.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“True conversion is the soul's return to its source.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“The path of philosophy ends in worship.”
Marius Victorinus by topic
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- When did Marius Victorinus live?
- Marius Victorinus was born in c. 290 AD and died in c. 364 AD.
- Where was Marius Victorinus from?
- Marius Victorinus was a Roman philosopher of the Ancient era.
- What philosophical movements is Marius Victorinus associated with?
- Marius Victorinus was associated with Platonism and Christian Philosophy.
- What was Marius Victorinus known for?
- Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman rhetorician, grammarian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and Latin Christian theologian whose late conversion in Rome around 355 became a pattern that helped inspire Augustine's own.
- How many quotes are attributed to Marius Victorinus?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Marius Victorinus in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.