Fathers of the church
Here are entered 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. Writings of early Christian authors are entered under Christian literature, Early.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Fathers of the church -- Biography
- Fathers of the church -- Dictionaries
- Fathers of the church -- History and criticism
- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Fathers of the church, Greek
- Church fathers
- Patristics
- Philosophy, Patristic
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Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (partial serial archives)- Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian: Translated Out of the Original Syriac, With Notes and Indices (Oxford: J. H. Parker; London: P. and J. Rivington, 1847), by Saint Ephraem Syrus, trans. by J. B. Morris
- Patrologia Orientalis (partial serial archives)
- Antiquitates Apostolicae: or, The Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of Our Saviour; To Which Are Added, Lives of the Two Evangelists, St. Mark and St. Luke; As Also, a Brief Enumeration and Account of the Apostles and Their Successors for the First Three Hundred Years, in the Five Great Apostolical Churches (2 volumes; London: J. Hatchard and Son; et al., 1834), by William Cave, contrib. by Henry Stebbing
- A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines (4 volumes; London: John Murray, 1877-1887), ed. by William Smith and Henry Wace
- A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies (based on the 1911 John Murray edition), ed. by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy: Philosophy of the First Six Centuries (London and Glasgow: R. Griffin, 1854), by Frederick Denison Maurice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Post-Nicene Greek Fathers (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883), by George Anson Jackson (HTML and Word files at earlychristianwritings.com)
- Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D. (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Timothy E. Gregory
- Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1989), by Kenneth L. Gentry (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution, Traced for the First Three Hundred Years (1859), by W. D. Killen (Gutenberg text)
- Annales (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalum, Scriptores Arabici Textus series 3, books 6 and 7 bound in one volume; main text in Arabic, notes in Latin; Paris: C. Poussielgue; Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1906-1909), by Patriarch of Alexandria Eutychius, ed. by Louis Cheikho, Bernard Carra de Vaux, and Ḥabīb Zayyāt, contrib. by Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd Anṭākī
- Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Antiqua Mater: A Study of Christian Origins (London: Trübner and Co., 1887), by E. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Christian Ecclesia: A Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and One Sermon, by Fenton John Anthony Hort (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Church History, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at New Advent)
- The Church in Rome in the First Century, by George Edmundson (multiple formats at CCEL)
- The Early Church, From Ignatius to Augustine, by George Hodges (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Ecclesiastical History: A History of the Church in Six Books, From A.D. 431 to A.D. 594, by Scholasticus Evagrius, trans. by Edward Walford (HTML with commentary at tertullian.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
- Eusebius Pamphilus: His Ten Books of Ecclesiastical History, Faithfully Translated and Abridg'd from the Original (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1703), by Eusebius of Caesarea, ed. by Samuel Parker, contrib. by Charles Leslie (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- History of the Early Church From the First Preaching of the Gospel to the Council of Nicea, For the Use of Young Persons (New York: D. Appleton, 1860), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the Origins of Christianity (7 volumes; London: Mathieson and Co., ca. 1890), by Ernest Renan
- all volumes (some from other editions): page images at HathiTrust
- Book I (Life of Jesus): multiple formats at CCEL
- Book II (The Apostles): multiple formats at CCEL
- Book III (Saint Paul): multiple formats at CCEL
- Book IV (The Antichrist): multiple formats at CCEL
- Book V (The Gospels): multiple formats at CCEL
- Book VI (The Reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius): multiple formats at CCEL
- Book VII (Marcus-Aurelius): multiple formats at CCEL
- Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922), by Kirsopp Lake (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
- The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, by Adolf von Harnack, trans. by James Moffatt (multiple formats at CCEL)
- The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, Bishop of Ephesus, Now First Translated From the Original Syriac, by John, Bishop of Ephesus, trans. by R. Payne Smith (HTML at tertullian.org)
- People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Ralph W. Mathisen (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Acts of the Apostles in the Proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by Ellen G. White (HTML at whiteestate.org)
- Apostolic Christianity: or, The People's Antidote Against Romanism and Puseyism (London: J. Snow, et al., 1842), by James Godkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediaeval (second edition; London: David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Kirche und Staat bis zur Gründung der Staatskirche (reprinted from Kultur der Gegenwart v1, pt. 4; ca. 1906), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- La Primauté de Pierre, et la Venue de Pierre à Rome: Étude Critique (in French; Paris: Émile Nourry, 1909), by Charles Guignebert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, by Walter Bauer, ed. by Robert A. Kraft and Gerhard Krodel (HTML at jewishchristianlit.com)
- The Pupils of St. John the Divine, by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911), by George Hodges (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Syriac Chronicle Known as That of Zachariah of Mitylene, by Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene, trans. by F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks (HTML at tertullian.org)
- Syriac Miscellanies: or, Extracts Relating to the First and Second General Councils, and Various Other Quotations, Theological, Historical and Classical, ed. by Benjamin Harris Cowper (HTML at tertullian.org)
- Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, by Samuel Sharpe (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Gospels in the Second Century: An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled "Supernatural Religion" (1876), by W. Sanday (Gutenberg text)
- Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom, by Stephen McKenna (PDF files at LIBRO)
- The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis), I: To the Pontificate of Gregory I (no more volumes known to be published in this edition; New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), ed. by Louise Ropes Loomis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Le Liber Pontificalis: Texte, Introduction et Commentaire (2 volumes, in French and Latin; Paris: E. Thorin, 1886-1892), ed. by L. Duchesne
- Callista: A Tale of the Third Century (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
- The Wrestler of Philippi: A Tale of the Early Christians (revised edition; Elgin, IL and Chicago: D. C. Cook, c1897), by Fannie E. Newberry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text)
- The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)
- The People That History Forgot, by Ernest L. Martin (HTML with commentary at askelm.com)
- Bessarione (in Italian; US access only) (partial serial archives)
- A Source Book for Ancient Church History, From the Apostolic Age to the Close of the Conciliar Period (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949, c1913), by Joseph Cullen Ayer (page images at Piggy's Bucher)
- 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 Post-Nicene Greek Fathers (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883), by George Anson Jackson (HTML and Word files at earlychristianwritings.com)
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