The Early Church books

Biographical data on Lactantius are meager. In his catalogue of illustrious men St. Jerome informs us that Lactantius...  Read More >>

This volume contains seven works of the zealously ascetical Christian writer of third-century Carthage, Tertullian....  Read More >>

Renowned for his homiletic virtuosity, Augustine has been credited with hundreds of sermons. This collection of...  Read More >>

Written during the time when the Roman Empire was crumbling, Augustine's De civitate Dei tackles the questions raised...  Read More >>

This volume contains translations of four of Augustine's earliest works: De beata vita, Contra Academicos, De ordine,...  Read More >>

Augustine's Letters 83-130 were written between 408 and 412, during a time when North Africa was in an uproar over...  Read More >>

Clement of Alexandria, a scholar who flourished around the turn of the third century, devoted this work to instructing...  Read More >>

The name ""Apostolic Fathers"" was first applied in 1672 to a group of five writers who were taken either to have...  Read More >>

This volume contains the translation of the six concluding books of The City of God. Book 17 briefly reviews significant...  Read More >>

Augustine wrote his famous Confessiones during the early years of his episcopate, specifically, between 397 and...  Read More >>

This volume continues the translation of St. Augustine's monumental work The City of God, a product of his vast...  Read More >>

The letters of St. Basil, three hundred and sixty-eight in number, which comprise the most vivid and most personal...  Read More >>

During the brief period between 412 and 414, Augustine's many theological and pastoral concerns produced an abundant...  Read More >>

The Catholic and Manichaean Ways of Life is, like the Contra academicos (386) and the works of St. Augustine's later...  Read More >>

This is the second volume of the letters of Bishop Basil of Caesarea in the Fathers of the Church series (Letters...  Read More >>

Although the eighty-two Letters in this volume do not themselves specifically state when they were written, the...  Read More >>

St. Justin Martyr is known as the outstanding apologist of the second century. While the Apostolic Fathers like...  Read More >>

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)  Read More >>

A Case for Mixed-Audience with Reference to the Warning Passages in the Book of Hebrews discusses the nature of...  Read More >>

Jerald Bauer's Westminster Dictionary of Church History was originally published in 1969 and has ably served an...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging collection of authoritative accounts covering all major areas of current research in Early Christian...  Read More >>

A reconstruction of how Augustine, one of the most famous and productive theologians in the Western Church, used...  Read More >>

Offers ways of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. This book reveals the centrality of ethnicity and...  Read More >>

The Historical Dictionary of the Coptic Church details the history of one of the oldest Christian churches. This...  Read More >>

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