Theological Term of the Week: Ambrose of Milan

Ambrose of Milan
A “Catholic provincial governor who became bishop or Milan in 374.”1 He lived from 239-297.

• From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham:

… Ambrose attained to fame as a magnificant preacher, a resolute enemy of Arianism, and a pioneer hymn-writer… . Ambrose also popularised in Western worship the Eastern practice of singing hymns. By “hymns” I mean newly written songs of worship, as opposed to the Old Testament psalms and other songs or poetic passages of Scripture set to music (e.g. the Manificant of Luke 1:46-55). Ambrose wrote his own hymns to teach his congregation the orthodox doctrine of Christ during the Arian controversy.  

Learn more:

1. Got Questions: Who was Ambrose of Milan?
2. Theopedia: Ambrose of Milan
3. Christian History: Ambrose of Milan
4. Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Ambrose

Related terms:

• Apollinarius
• Athanasius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Basil of Caesarea
• Cappadocian fathers
• Columba
• Cyril of Alexandria
• Gregory of Nanzianzus
• Gregory of Nyssa
• Gregory the Great
• Hilary of Poitiers
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Jerome
• John Chrysostom
• Justin Martyr
• Maximus the Confessor
• Monica
• Nestorius
• Origen
• Patrick
• Pelagius
• Sabellius
• Tertullian
• Venerable Bede, The

Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.

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