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canjobeartoday at 1:45 AM1 replyview on HN

What’s the evidence Boethius wasn’t Christian? Wikipedia says he was.


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montefischertoday at 3:56 PM

Boethius was a Christian. He wrote a book explaining the Trinity, for example (De Trinitate). The work for which he is most famous today, the Consolation of Philosophy, does not mention Christ by name, which have led some to speculate that he lost his faith later in life. There is an absence of direct evidence for that claim.