Christian literature, Early
Here are entered writings of early Christian authors. Works on the life and thought of the leaders of the early church to the time of Gregory the Great in the West and John of Damascus in the East are entered under Fathers of the church.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Christian literature, Early -- Greek authors
- Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
- Christian literature, Early -- Latin authors
- Christian literature, Early -- Periodicals
- Christian poetry, Early
- Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Apocryphal and legendary literature
- Jesus Christ -- Trial -- Apocryphal and legendary literature
- Early Christian literature
- Patristic literature
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The Early Christians, in Their Own Words (Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House, c2011), ed. by Eberhard Arnold and Bruderhof Foundation (PDF at plough.com)- Patrologia Orientalis (partial serial archives)
- The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library edition; in original languages and English translations), trans. by Kirsopp Lake
- Early Christian Fathers, ed. by Cyril Charles Richardson (multiple formats at CCEL)
- The Early Church Fathers (HTML at CCEL)
- Patrologiae Cursus Completus (Latin series; 221 volumes in Latin, published 1844-1865), ed. by J.-P. Migne (page images at Google, archive.org and Gallica via patristica.net)
- Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Graeca (161 volumes in Greek with Latin commentary and translation, published 1857-1866), ed. by J.-P. Migne
- The Shepherd of Hermas, by Hermas, trans. by Frederick Crombie (HTML at newadvent.org)
- Analecta Sacra Spicilegio Solesmensi Parata (7 volumes (1-6 and 8; v7 never published); in Latin, Greek, and French, with titles varying somewhat; 1876-1891), ed. by J. B. Pitra, contrib. by Saint Hildegard
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Book I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Book II (Patres Antenicaeni): multiple formats at archive.org
- Book III (Patres Antenicaeni): multiple formats at archive.org
- Book IV (Patres Antenicaeni): multiple formats at archive.org
- Book V (Analecta Sacra et Classica): multiple formats at archive.org
- Book VI (Juris Ecclesiastici Graecorum, sometimes misidentified as Book VII): page images at Gallica
- Book VIII (Sanctae Hildegardis): multiple formats at archive.org
- The Epistles of St. Ignatius (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1910), by Saint Ignatius, ed. by J. H. Srawley
- Spicilegium Syriacum: Containing Remains of Bardesn, Meliton, Abrose and Mara Bar Serapion (non-English portions omitted), ed. by William Cureton (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)
- The Newly Recovered Apology of Aristides: Its Doctrine and Ethics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1891), by Helen B. Harris, contrib. by active 2nd century Aristides and J. Rendel Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Synodikon: Sive Pandectae Canonum SS. Apostolorum, et Conciliorum ab Ecclesia Graeca Receptorum, Nec Non Canoniscarum SS. Patrum Epistolarum (2 volumes in Latin and Greek; Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1672), ed. by William Beveridge
- The Wisdom of the Desert, by George A. Birmingham (HTML at Notre Dame)
- The Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion (the portions published in 1920, with some additional translations), by Saint Photius I, trans. by John Henry Freese and Roger Pearse (HTML at tertullian.org)
- The Prolegomena of Jean Hardouin (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1909), by Jean Hardouin, trans. by E. Johnson, contrib. by Edward Augustus Petherick (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by Walter Richard Cassels (HTML at Freethought Archives)
- The Post-Nicene Greek Fathers (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883), by George Anson Jackson (HTML and Word files at earlychristianwritings.com)
- Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (New York: J. Miller, 1864), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii Opera Omnia: Ad Editionem Parisiensem Joannis Bapt. Le Brun et Nicolai Lenglet du Fresnoi, Anni 1748 Recusa (2 volumes, in Latin; : In Officina Libraria Staheliana, 1783-1784), by Lactantius, ed. by Franz Oberthür
- Bulletin d'Ancienne Littérature et d'Archéologie Chrétiennes (in French; US access only; 1911-1914) (full serial archives)
- The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (London: L. N. Fowler and Co.; Los Angeles: E. S. Dowling, 1911), by Levi, contrib. by Eva S. Dowling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (8th edition; London: L. N. Fowler and Co., c1920), by Levi, contrib. by Eva S. Dowling (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der Neutestamentlichen Apokryphen (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1909), by Walter Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (1890), by Nicolas Notovitch, trans. by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Strange New Gospels, by Edgar J. Goodspeed (HTML at tertullian.org)
- A Correct Transcript of Pilate's Court, As Taken From Tiberius Caesars' Records in the Vatican at Rome, Giving a Correct Account of the Apprehension, Trial, and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth (preface has Clarke byline; main text by Mahan; Amherst, MA: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse, 1903), by W. D. Mahan, contrib. by Marion L. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Christian literature -- History and criticism- Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)
- St. Patrick's Purgatory: An Essay on the Legends of Purgatory, Hell, and Paradise, Current During the Middle Ages (London: John Russell Smith, 1844), by Thomas Wright (multiple formats at Google)
- The Quiver (partial serial archives)
- "Buy Your Own Cherries!" and Other Tales (second edition; London: Jarrold and Sons, ca. 1864), by John William Kirton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Works of John Bunyan, by John Bunyan, ed. by George Offor
- Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (HTML at Michigan)
- Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (HTML at Michigan)
- Vices and Virtues, ed. by Ferdinand Holthausen (HTML at Michigan)
- The Early South-English Legendary, or, Lives of Saints, I: Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian Library (only volume published in Horstmann's projected Legendary series; EETS #87; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1887), ed. by Carl Horstmann
- Hrotsvithae Opera (in Latin; Berlin: Weidmannos, 1902), by Hrotsvitha, ed. by Paul von Winterfeld
- The Colporteur's Commission: A Tract for the Times, in Several Scriptural Hymns (c.1862), by H. Keeling (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Made in the Pans (Edinburgh: Oliphant, ca. 1918), by Amy Carmichael, contrib. by Handley Dunelm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (with a memoir of the author; London: Strahan and Co., 1868), by Sarah Williams, ed. by E. H. Plumptre
- The Golden Chain of Praise: Hymns (London: W. Hunt and Co., ca. 1868), by Thomas Hornblower Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Golden Chain of Praise: Hymns (second edition, greatly enlarged; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894), by Thomas Hornblower Gill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Turn the Carpet, or, The Two Weavers: A New Song, in a Dialogue Between Dick and John (London: J. Marshall and R. White; Bath, UK: S. Hazard, 1796), by Hannah More, illust. by John Lee
- A Life Well Lived: 52 Inspiring Real-life Stories for Devotion, Study and Family Reading (c2005), ed. by Jim Gwinn, contrib. by Mark Cutshall (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
- Deep is the Hunger: Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness (New York: Harper and Bros., c1951), by Howard Thurman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness (Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1947), by Howard Thurman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Secret Garden of the Soul, and Other Devotional Studies (New York: G. H. Doran Co.; London: J. Clarke and Co., 1924), by E. Herman, contrib. by Meyer Herman and Duncan C. Macgregor (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises, ed. by Edmund G. Gardner
- Centuries of Meditations, by Thomas Traherne (multiple formats at CCEL)
- A Choice Drop of Honey From the Rock Christ, by Thomas Wilcox (HTML in Finland)
- Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life, by Adrien Sylvain, ed. by Charlotte M. Yonge, trans. by E. L. E. B. (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Links and Clues (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
- Little Things (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union; et al., c1852), by Henrietta Wilson, ed. by American Sunday-School Union Committee of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thy Will Be Done: The Blessedness of a Life in the Will of God (New York et al.: Fleming Revell Co., c1900), by Andrew Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Treatise Written to a Devout Man, by Walter Hilton (HTML at CCEL)
- Alone to the Alone: Prayers for Theists (second edition; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1872), ed. by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions (Charleston: Printed by Evans and Cogswell, 1863), ed. by C. T. Quintard
- Joy to the World: Communicating the Gospel of Christ, by Arthur Blessitt (HTML at blessitt.com)
- Hymns in Prose for Children (London: J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1781), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales (new and enlarged edition, 1910), by Jean-Pierre Camus (Gutenberg text)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.