Roman statesman, philosopher, and Christian theologian whose logical and theological writings became foundational for medieval learning. The Consolation of Philosophy joins dialogue and poetry in a meditation on providence, freedom, and happiness.
Boethius’s prison dialogue with Lady Philosophy considers fortune, happiness, providence, divine foreknowledge, and human freedom through alternating prose and verse.
Boethius's five short theological treatises: on the Trinity, on whether Father, Son and Spirit are predicated substantially of God, on how substances are good, on the Catholic faith, and against Eutyches and Nestorius on the two natures of Christ.
