The Early Church books

Augustine has given us here a fairly complete compendium of his whole theology and the system on which it rests....  Read More >>

Written around the end of the fifth century or the beginning of the sixth, this work, composed at the urgent request...  Read More >>

This is in many ways the most remarkable patristic document now extant, the last surviving apology composed before...  Read More >>

This is in many ways the most remarkable patristic document now extant, the last surviving apology composed before...  Read More >>

Written about the year 405, this treatise is unique in that it embodies both a manual for the catechist and a catechesis...  Read More >>

The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder...  Read More >>

The Didache or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, probably written before the end of the first century, purports...  Read More >>

St. Clement's epistle, written c. 96, is called the first epistle, and is a model of a pastoral letter. The epistles...  Read More >>

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Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded...  Read More >>

Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded...  Read More >>

Among the earlier writings of Augustine, the first work treats the nature of the human soul, its dignity and grandeur....  Read More >>

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Historical works by Bede (672 or 673 735 CE) include his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Lives of...  Read More >>

Historical works by Bede (672 or 673 735 CE) include his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Lives of...  Read More >>

Tertullian founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church...  Read More >>

Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about AD 314, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history...  Read More >>

No detailed description available for ""Homilien zu Samuel I, zum Hohelied und zu den Propheten"".  Read More >>

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University...  Read More >>

The consecration of the city of Constantinople in 330 CE on the emplacement of the Greek city of Byzantium was one...  Read More >>

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Introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom,...  Read More >>