The Church Fathers · 361–363
The Letters
Julian the Apostate · 331 – 363
What it is
Administrative and personal correspondence from the last pagan emperor, including the edict barring Christians from teaching the classics on the ground that a man who thinks Homer's gods false should not be paid to expound him — and a letter urging pagan priests to match the Galileans, who support not only their own poor but ours.
Why it lasted
The clearest evidence of what Christian charity looked like to a hostile observer with access to the figures, and of why the pagan revival failed: Julian had to instruct his priests to imitate the church.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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