Yale University Library Research Guides: Early Christianity and Patristics: Hilary of Poitiers

Hilary of Poitiers Studies

Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality by Jarred A. Mercer understanding Hilary not only as an important historical figure, but as a noteworthy and independent thinker. contends that in all of Hilary's polemical and constructive argumentation, which is essentially trinitarian, he is inherently developing an anthropology.
Hilary of Poitiers on the Trinity by Carl Beckwith engages the extensive scholarship on the fourth-century Trinitarian debates and brings new light on the structure and chronology of Hilary's monumental De Trinitate.

Hilary of Poitiers on the Trinity by E.P. Meijering; Winden Online available.
The Trinity by Stephen McKenna discussion of the relationship between God the Father and God the Son: they are consubstantial, co-eternal, and fully equal. earliest study of Trinitarian doctrine in the Latin language. Online available.
A Model for the Christian Life: Commentary on Psalms by Paul C. Burns employs the Psalms to explore three progressive stages of the Christian life--baptism, resurrection, and transformation--then proposes a complex, integrated model for the Christian life. discusses the intended audience of Hilary's text and the use of the Psalms by Christians in the fourth century.
Hilary of Poitiers' Preface to His Opus Historicum by P. Smulders introduction to the present edition sketches the mutilated works discovery, tabulates its contents, and discusses problems of dating and authenticity.The English translation, which faces the Latin text, adopts some alternative readings.
"Against Valens and Ursacius", the extant fragments, together with his "Letter to the Emperor Constantius" by Lionel R. Wickham a historical work Hilary wrote against two contemporary bishops, Valens and Ursacius, whose intervention on behalf of the Emperor Constantius Hilary thought disastrous.