José Manuel MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ

Original title: Hieronymus classicus et christianus. La defensa de los clásicos como medio para los autores cristianos

Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)  

Keywords: Christian education, Christian literature, Jerome – Classical tradition – Greek literature, Latin literature.

In a time of changes of paradigm between the Roman world that approached its end and the new political, social and cultural situation of Christianity, saint Jerome repre-sents the example of christian writers and philosophers who try to bring both worlds together. With a great classical education from the imperial educational system, due to the fact that a specific christian educational system had not been yet developed, saint Jerome struggles between the benefits of such propedeutic education and the spiritual need of focusing in theological literature.