Articles
Essays and lectures
- Anglican · Apology
An Apology of the Church of England
The first full defence of the Church of England against Rome (1562): why the English church left the Roman obedience and what it holds instead.
- Reformed · Catechism
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
One hundred and seven questions, beginning "What is the chief end of man?": the most widely memorised catechism in the English-speaking Reformed world.
- Reformed · Confession
The Westminster Confession of Faith
The confession of the Reformed and Presbyterian churches of the English-speaking world (1647): thirty-three chapters from Scripture to the last judgment.
- Catholic · Philosophy
Utopia
More's account (1516) of an island where goods are held in common and religion is free: a witty argument about the evils of his own England.
- Lutheran · Devotion
True Christianity
Arndt's four books (1605–1610) on the inner life of faith: the image of God in man, Christ's life as the pattern, and the book of nature; the most read Lutheran devotional work after Luther's own.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Cur Deus Homo: Why God Became Man
Anselm's dialogue on why the incarnation and death of Christ were necessary, the classic statement of the satisfaction view of the atonement.
- Anglican · Devotion
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Law's call (1729) to take Christianity as the plan of one's whole life, told through portraits like Miranda and Flavia; it shaped the Wesleys.
- Reformed · Sermons
Select Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
Nineteen sermons (1720s to 1740s), among them Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Divine and Supernatural Light and The Excellency of Christ, by the preacher of the Great Awakening.
- Reformed · Confession
The Second Helvetic Confession
Bullinger's confession (1566), accepted by the Reformed churches of Switzerland, Scotland, France, Hungary and Poland: thirty chapters from Scripture to the magistrate.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 8: Modern Christianity: The Swiss Reformation
The eighth volume: Zwingli at Zurich, the spread of the Reformation in Switzerland, Calvin's life and work at Geneva, his theology and discipline, the case of Servetus, and Theodore Beza.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 7: Modern Christianity: The German Reformation
The seventh volume: Luther's training and the ninety-five theses, the Diet of Worms, the spread and the persecution of the new faith, the Peasants' War, the sacramentarian controversies, and the Diet and Confession of Augsburg.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 6: The Middle Ages
The sixth volume, completed by David S. Schaff: the papacy at Avignon, the papal schism and the reforming councils, the German mystics, the reformers before the Reformation, the Renaissance and the close of the Middle Ages.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 5: The Middle Ages
The fifth volume: the Hildebrandian popes, Gregory VII, Innocent III, the Crusades, the monastic orders, missions, heresy and its suppression, the universities and cathedrals, scholastic and mystic theology.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 4: Mediaeval Christianity
The fourth volume, from Gregory the Great to Gregory VII: the conversion of northern and western Europe, Islam, the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, the split of East and West, monasticism, worship and learning.
- Anglican · Devotion
The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes
The prayers Andrewes wrote for himself, in Greek, over a long life: confession, praise and intercession for each day of the week.
- Anglican · Devotion
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Written in 1623 during a near-fatal illness: twenty-three stages of the sickness, each with a meditation, an expostulation with God and a prayer.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 3: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity
The third volume: the victory of the church under Constantine, its alliance with the state, the rise of monasticism, the hierarchy, worship, art, the great doctrinal controversies and the Fathers.
- Catholic · Poetry
The Divine Comedy
Dante's journey (c. 1320) through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise: a hundred cantos in which the whole of medieval theology is made into a story.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 2: Ante-Nicene Christianity
The second volume: the spread of the faith, the persecutions, the pagan attacks and Christian answers, church order and worship, the catacombs, the heresies, and the growth of Catholic theology.
- Church History · Church history
History of the Christian Church, Volume 1: Apostolic Christianity
Schaff's first volume: the Jewish and Greek world Christ came into, his life and teaching, the work of Peter, Paul and John, the life, worship, organization and theology of the apostolic church, and the New Testament.
- Anglican · Mystical theology
Revelations of Divine Love
Sixteen visions of Christ's passion and love, received in 1373 and pondered for twenty years: the first book in English by a woman.
- Reformed · Treatise
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
Edwards's test (1746) of true religion in the age of the Great Awakening: what the affections are, what are no certain signs of grace, and the twelve signs that are.
- Reformed · Pastoral theology
The Reformed Pastor
Baxter's call (1656) to the ministers of Worcestershire to take heed to themselves and to the flock: personal instruction of every family, catechizing and the oversight of souls.
- Catholic · Philosophical theology
The Proslogion
Anselm's prayer-like argument that God is "that than which nothing greater can be thought": the ontological argument, in twenty-six short chapters.
- Catholic · Apologetics
The Everlasting Man
Chesterton's history of the world in two halves (1925): man as the creature called man, and the Man called Christ, who comes out of a cave and changes it.
- Reformed · Allegory
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan's dream (1678, 1684) of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, and of his wife Christiana's following: written in Bedford gaol, and the most widely read English book after the Bible.
- Catholic · Apologetics
Pensées
Pascal's unfinished defence of the Christian faith (1670): man's greatness and misery, the wager, the hidden God, the prophecies and the proofs of Jesus Christ.
- Catholic · Apologetics
Orthodoxy
Chesterton's account (1908) of how he found, by wandering in search of a new faith, that the old one had been waiting for him: a defence of Christian belief in paradox and wonder.
- Reformed · Sermons
The Fountain of Life Opened Up
Forty-two sermons (1671) on Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory: his person, his offices of prophet, priest and king, his humiliation and his exaltation, by the Puritan minister of Dartmouth.
- Reformed · Autobiography
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Bunyan's spiritual autobiography (1666), written in prison: his youth, his long struggle with despair, his call to preach and his imprisonment.
- Catholic · Philosophy
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
Newman's account (1870) of how we come to believe what we cannot prove: the difference between notional and real assent, and the illative sense that weighs probabilities into certainty.
- Reformed · Catechism
The Heidelberg Catechism
The catechism of 1563 in 129 questions, beginning "What is thy only comfort in life and in death?": misery, deliverance, gratitude.
- Lutheran · Reformation writings
The Ninety-Five Theses and the Three Primary Works
The Theses of 1517 and the three treatises of 1520: To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, On the Freedom of a Christian, and On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church.
- Anglican · Devotion
Holy Dying
Taylor's companion to Holy Living (1651): how to prepare for death, to bear sickness and to be visited as one dies.
- Anglican · Devotion
Holy Living
Taylor's rules for a Christian life (1650): how to use each day, and the practice of sobriety, justice and religion, with prayers for every need.
- Catholic · Philosophical theology
The Monologion
Anselm's meditation on the nature of God, reasoned from belief alone: that God is the supreme good, the source of all things, one and three.
- Anglican · Sermons
Human Nature and Other Sermons
Butler's sermons at the Rolls Chapel (1726) on conscience, human nature, compassion and the love of neighbour and of God.
- Catholic · Education
The Idea of a University
Newman's nine Dublin discourses (1852) and the lectures that followed: what a university is for, why theology belongs in it, and what it means to be an educated person.
- Catholic · Devotion
The Imitation of Christ
The most widely read book of Christian devotion after the Bible: four short books on turning from the world to Christ.
- Reformed · Systematic theology
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I: The Knowledge of God the Creator
Calvin's great summary of Christian doctrine, Book I: how God is known in creation and in Scripture, the Trinity, creation and providence.
- Reformed · Systematic theology
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book II: The Knowledge of God the Redeemer
Calvin's Institutes, Book II: the fall, the law and the gospel, and the person and work of Christ the Mediator.
- Reformed · Systematic theology
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III: The Way We Receive the Grace of Christ
Calvin's Institutes, Book III: faith, repentance, justification, the Christian life, and predestination.
- Reformed · Systematic theology
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV: The External Means of Grace
Calvin's Institutes, Book IV: the Church, its ministers and government, the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, and civil government.
- Catholic · Devotion
Introduction to the Devout Life
Francis de Sales's guide (1609) for people in the world: that holiness is for every state of life, with counsels on prayer, the virtues, friendship, temptation and renewal.
- Lutheran · Catechism
The Large Catechism
Luther's teaching on the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism and the Lord's Supper, written for pastors and heads of households.
- Reformed · Letters
Letters of Samuel Rutherford
Letters (1627–1661) from the minister of Anwoth, written from his banishment at Aberdeen: pastoral comfort to the grieving, the persecuted and the dying, full of his love for Christ.
- Church History · Biography
The Life of Constantine
Eusebius's four books on the first Christian emperor: the vision of the cross, the victory at the Milvian Bridge, the end of the persecutions, the Council of Nicaea and Constantine's death.
- Church History · Biography
The Life of St Martin and Three Dialogues
The life of the soldier who became bishop of Tours, written by his friend while Martin was still alive, with three dialogues on his miracles. It began the Western tradition of the saint's life.
- Catholic · Autobiography
The Life of St Teresa of Jesus
Teresa's own story (1565): her childhood, her years of half-hearted prayer, and the four degrees of prayer by which God drew her to himself; she wrote it on her confessors' orders.
- Church History · Biography
Lives of Illustrious Men
Short lives and bibliographies of 135 Christian writers from Peter and Paul to Jerome's own day (392), continued by Gennadius to about 480: the first history of Christian literature.
- Lutheran · Conversation
Selections from the Table Talk
Luther's talk at table, taken down by his students: on God's word and works, the world, Christ, sin and free will, the law and the gospel, prayer, and the diets of the Empire.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, Third Part, Questions 60–90: The Sacraments
What a sacrament is, its cause and effects, and Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist and Penance (the Third Part as Aquinas left it).
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, Third Part, Questions 1–59: The Incarnation and the Life of Christ
The fitness and manner of the incarnation, Christ's two natures, grace and knowledge, his birth, life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension and judgment.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part, Questions 1–26: Sacred Doctrine and the One God
What sacred doctrine is, the five ways to show that God exists, and what can be said of God: his simplicity, goodness, infinity, knowledge, will and power.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, Supplement to the Third Part, Questions 1–99: Penance, Anointing, Orders, Matrimony and the Last Things
The rest of the doctrine of the sacraments and the last things, completed by Aquinas's disciples from his commentary on the Sentences: the resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Questions 47–122: Prudence, Justice and Religion
Prudence, justice and its parts (rights, restitution, theft, lying, oaths), religion and worship, vows and prayer, and the Decalogue.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Questions 123–189: Fortitude, Temperance and the States of Life
Fortitude and martyrdom, temperance, chastity and humility, prophecy and rapture, the active and the contemplative life, and the religious state.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Questions 1–46: Faith, Hope and Charity
The theological virtues one by one: faith, hope and charity, with the vices opposed to them, and the gifts that go with them.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part, Questions 90–114: Law and Grace
The nature of law, eternal, natural and human law, the Old Law and the New, and grace: its necessity, its cause, its effects and merit.
- Anglican · Apologetics
The Analogy of Religion
Butler's answer to the deists (1736): the course of nature raises the same difficulties as revealed religion, so the objections cannot decide against it.
- Anglican · Catechism
The Catechism of the Church of England
The short instruction in the Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1662) that every person was to learn before confirmation.
- Church History · Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The year-by-year record kept in English monasteries from King Alfred's day (about 890) to 1154: the conversion of the English, Viking raids, kings and bishops, and the coming of the Normans. Entries added from Giles's translation are marked.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part, Questions 1–48: Happiness, Human Acts and the Passions
The last end of man, what true happiness is, the voluntary and the involuntary, good and evil acts, and the passions of the soul.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part, Questions 49–89: Habits, Virtues, Vices and Sin
Habits in general, the virtues (intellectual, moral and theological), the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, vice, sin, original sin and mortal and venial sin.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part, Questions 27–43: The Holy Trinity
The processions, the persons and the names of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the sending of the persons.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part, Questions 75–102: Man: Soul, Body and the First State
The human soul and its powers, how it knows, the creation of man and woman, the image of God and the state of paradise.
- Anglican · Autobiography
Apologia pro Vita Sua
Newman's account (1864) of his religious opinions: the Oxford Movement, the Tracts, and the road from the Church of England to Rome.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part, Questions 103–119: The Government of Creation
Divine providence, the way God governs and moves creatures, the work of angels and bodies, and the propagation of man.
- Lutheran · Confession
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
Melanchthon's reply (1531) to the Roman Confutation: a long defence of justification by faith and of the other articles of the Augsburg Confession.
- Orthodox · Catechism
The Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church
The Russian Orthodox catechism approved by the Holy Synod in 1839 and used in schools: faith, hope and love, set out in questions and answers.
- Catholic · Systematic theology
Summa Theologica, First Part, Questions 44–74: Creation, the Angels and the Six Days
God as the cause of all things, the origin of evil, the angels (their nature, knowledge and fall) and the work of the six days.
- Lutheran · Confession
The Augsburg Confession
The Lutheran confession of 1530, read to the Emperor at the Diet of Augsburg: twenty-eight articles on faith and on the abuses corrected.
- Church History · Narrative history
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bede's history (731) of how Christianity came to England: Augustine's mission from Rome, the Irish monks of Iona and Lindisfarne, the Synod of Whitby, and the lives of saints, kings and bishops.
- Reformed · Confession
The Belgic Confession
The confession of the Dutch Reformed churches (1561, revised at Dort in 1619): thirty-seven articles from the one God to the last judgment.
- Lutheran · Treatise
The Bondage of the Will
Luther's answer (1525) to Erasmus's defence of free will: he held that God's will alone decides, that the will is bound by sin, and that salvation comes by grace alone. He called it the one book of his worth keeping.
- Orthodox · Novel
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's last novel (1880): three brothers, a murdered father, and the questions of faith, suffering and freedom, with Father Zosima's teaching and Ivan's Grand Inquisitor.
- Reformed · Confession
The Canons of the Synod of Dort
The Synod's judgment (1618-19) on five points of doctrine raised by the Remonstrants: election, the death of Christ, human corruption and conversion, and perseverance.
- Church History · Chronicle
The Sacred History
A short history of the world from creation to about AD 400 in two books, drawn from the Old Testament and then the story of the church and its persecutions; the first Latin church chronicle.
- Catholic · Devotion
The Spiritual Exercises
Ignatius's thirty days of prayer (1548): meditations on sin, on the life of Christ and on the love of God, with rules for discerning the movements of the soul.
- Reformed · Commentary
Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans
Calvin's first biblical commentary (1540), verse by verse through Paul's letter; he held that the interpreter's chief virtue is lucid brevity.
- Church History · Narrative history
The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen
Nine books (written about 443) on the church from Constantine to Theodosius II, with much on the spread of the faith, the monks of Egypt and Palestine, and the church in Persia.
- Church History · Narrative history
The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
Seven books (written about 440) carrying Eusebius's story from the persecution of Diocletian to 439: the Arian dispute, the councils, the bishops and emperors, told by a lawyer of Constantinople.
- Lutheran · Catechism
The Small Catechism
Luther's short catechism of 1529 for the household: the Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism, confession and the Lord's Supper.
- Lutheran · Confession
The Smalcald Articles
Luther's statement of 1537 on what cannot be given up: Christ's work and justification, and what he rejected in the Mass, the monasteries and the papacy.
- Reformed · Confession
The Sixty-Seven Articles
The theses (1523) on which Zwingli defended the Reformation in Zurich: the gospel, the church, the mass, the saints, marriage, the magistrate, and the end of abuses.
- Catholic · Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy
Written in prison before his execution (c. 524): Boethius, in conversation with Lady Philosophy, learns why fortune cannot make or unmake happiness, and how providence and free will agree. The book the Middle Ages read most after Scripture.
- Church History · Decrees and canons
The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church
The creeds, definitions and canons of the seven councils from Nicaea (325) to the second Nicaea (787), with the canons of the local synods the whole church accepted, and Percival's historical notes.
- Early Church · Letter
First Epistle to the Corinthians
A letter from the church at Rome to the church at Corinth, urging them to end a dispute and restore their leaders.
- Early Church · Letter
First Epistle to the Corinthians
A letter from the church at Rome to the church at Corinth, urging them to end a dispute and restore their leaders.
- Early Church · Letters
The Seven Letters
Seven letters to churches and to Polycarp, written on the way to martyrdom, on unity, the bishop and the Eucharist.
- Early Church · Letters
The Seven Letters
Seven letters to churches and to Polycarp, written on the way to martyrdom, on unity, the bishop and the Eucharist.
- Early Church · Letter
Epistle to the Philippians
A short pastoral letter to the church at Philippi, urging steadfastness in faith and good conduct.
- Early Church · Letter
Epistle to the Philippians
A short pastoral letter to the church at Philippi, urging steadfastness in faith and good conduct.
- Early Church · Letter
Epistle to the Philippians
A short pastoral letter to the church at Philippi, urging steadfastness in faith and good conduct.
- Early Church · Narrative
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
The church at Smyrna’s account of Polycarp’s arrest and death, one of the oldest accounts of a Christian martyrdom.
- Early Church · Narrative
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
The church at Smyrna’s account of Polycarp’s arrest and death, one of the oldest accounts of a Christian martyrdom.
- Early Church · Narrative
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
The church at Smyrna’s account of Polycarp’s arrest and death, one of the oldest accounts of a Christian martyrdom.
- Early Church · Apology
The First Apology
A defence of Christians addressed to the emperor, answering the charges made against them and describing Christian worship.
- Early Church · Apology
The Apology
A defence of Christians against the charges made in the courts and in the street.
- Early Church · Treatise
On First Principles (De Principiis)
An early attempt at a systematic account of Christian teaching: God, the world, freedom and the reading of Scripture.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Unity of the Church
Why the church is one, and why division within it is a grave sin.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Incarnation of the Word
Why the Word of God became human, and what that means for creation, death and the knowledge of God.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against the Heathen
The first part of Athanasius’s two-part work: the folly of idols and how the soul may know God.
- Early Church · Life
Life of St Antony
The life of the Egyptian hermit Antony, a book that shaped the monastic movement.
- Early Church · Lectures
Catechetical Lectures
Lectures given in Jerusalem to those preparing for baptism, explaining the creed and the sacraments.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Holy Spirit
Basil’s defence of the worship and glory given to the Holy Spirit, written to Amphilochius.
- Early Church · Orations
The Five Theological Orations
Five orations on the Trinity preached at Constantinople: on theology, on the Son and on the Holy Spirit.
- Early Church · Letter
On “Not Three Gods”
A short letter to Ablabius on how the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one God.
- Early Church · Dialogue
On the Soul and the Resurrection
A dialogue with his sister Macrina, as she lay dying, on the soul, death and the resurrection.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Priesthood
Six books, in the form of a dialogue, on the dignity and the burdens of pastoral ministry.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Duties of the Clergy
Ambrose’s guide to the conduct of Christian ministers, modelled on Cicero’s work on duties.
- Early Church · Life
The Life of Paulus the First Hermit
The life of Paul of Thebes, whom Jerome presents as the first Christian hermit.
- Early Church · Confession
The Confessions
Augustine’s account of his life and conversion, written as a prayer, in thirteen books.
- Early Church · Handbook
The Enchiridion (Faith, Hope and Love)
A handbook on faith, hope and love, written as a compact summary of Christian teaching.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Faith and the Creed
An exposition of the creed, article by article.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Catechising of the Uninstructed
Advice on how to teach those who are new to the faith.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Christian Doctrine
How to read and how to teach Scripture, in four books.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Commonitory
A guide for telling the church’s received teaching from novelty.
- Early Church · Manual
The Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)
A short handbook of Christian life and worship: the two ways, baptism, fasting, the Eucharist and the order of the church.
- Early Church · Manual
The Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)
A short handbook of Christian life and worship: the two ways, baptism, fasting, the Eucharist and the order of the church.
- Early Church · Manual
The Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)
A short handbook of Christian life and worship: the two ways, baptism, fasting, the Eucharist and the order of the church.
- Early Church · Letter
The Epistle of Barnabas
A letter that reads the Old Testament as pointing to Christ, with a teaching on the two ways.
- Early Church · Letter
The Epistle of Barnabas
A letter that reads the Old Testament as pointing to Christ, with a teaching on the two ways.
- Early Church · Letter
The Epistle of Barnabas
A letter that reads the Old Testament as pointing to Christ, with a teaching on the two ways.
- Early Church · Visions
The Shepherd of Hermas
Visions, commands and parables on repentance and the life of the church, among the most widely read books of the early church.
- Early Church · Letter
The Epistle to Diognetus
A short, eloquent answer to a pagan’s questions about Christians: how they live, why they do not worship idols, and why Christianity came so late.
- Early Church · Letter
The Epistle to Diognetus
A short, eloquent answer to a pagan’s questions about Christians: how they live, why they do not worship idols, and why Christianity came so late.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Heresies, Book III
Irenaeus argues from the apostles, the common teaching of the churches and the Scriptures that the faith has been handed down unchanged, and sets out the doctrine of Christ.
- Early Church · Apology
Against Celsus
Origen’s answer, in eight books, to the pagan philosopher Celsus, who had attacked Christianity in a work called The True Doctrine.
- Early Church · Treatise
The City of God, Books I–V
Written after the sack of Rome in 410: Augustine answers the charge that Christianity caused Rome’s fall, and argues that the old gods never gave earthly happiness.
- Early Church · Treatise
The City of God, Books VI–X
Still against the pagans: the gods and eternal life, and the philosophers, especially the Platonists, on what may be worshipped.
- Early Church · Treatise
The City of God, Books XI–XVIII
The origin and course of the two cities, one of God and one of the world, through the history told in Scripture.
- Early Church · Treatise
The City of God, Books XIX–XXII
The end of the two cities: the highest good, peace, the last judgment and the eternal state.
- Early Church · Conversations
The Conferences
Conversations between Cassian and the desert monks of Egypt, on prayer, the passions, grace and the aims of the monastic life.
- Early Church · Letter
The Tome of Leo (Letter 28)
Leo’s letter to Flavian of Constantinople on the person of Christ, one person in two natures, read at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
- Early Church · Treatise
An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
John's summary of Christian doctrine in four books: God and the Trinity, creation, the incarnation, and the sacraments, drawn from the Fathers before him.
- Early Church · Sermons
The Hexaemeron: Nine Homilies on the Six Days of Creation
Basil’s Lenten sermons on Genesis (c. 378): the creation of heaven and earth, the sea, the plants, the heavenly bodies, the birds and fish, and the animals, read as a lesson in knowing the Creator.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Making of Man
Gregory’s companion to Basil’s Hexaemeron (379): man made in the image of God, the soul and the body, the passions, and the resurrection.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Trinity
Fifteen books on the one God in three persons: what Scripture says, what the faith teaches, and how the human mind is a faint image of the Trinity.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Spirit and the Letter
Augustine’s answer on law and grace: the law commands, but only the Spirit gives the love by which it is kept.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Nature and Grace
A reply to Pelagius: human nature, wounded by sin, is healed and not merely helped by the grace of Christ.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Prescription Against Heretics
Why heretics may not argue from Scripture at all: the Scriptures belong to the church that received them from the apostles.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Baptism
The oldest surviving treatise on baptism: the water, the anointing, the laying on of hands, and who may baptise and when.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Prayer
A short commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, phrase by phrase, followed by counsel on when and how Christians pray.
- Early Church · Polemic
Against Marcion
Five books against Marcion, who rejected the Old Testament and its God: Tertullian argues that the Creator and the Father of Jesus Christ are one.
- Early Church · Instruction
On the Mysteries
Ambrose explains the rites of baptism, anointing and the Eucharist to the newly baptised in Milan.
- Early Church · Treatise
Concerning Repentance
Two books against the Novatians, who denied forgiveness to the fallen: the church has the power to forgive.
- Early Church · Apology
The Second Apology
A short defence of Christians addressed to the Roman senate, written after an unjust execution in Rome.
- Early Church · Dialogue
Dialogue with Trypho
Justin’s conversation with a Jewish teacher on the prophets, the law and Christ, one of the earliest Christian writings against a Jewish objector.
- Early Church · Exhortation
Exhortation to the Heathen
A call to leave the myths and mysteries of the Greeks for the Word who teaches, in Clement’s learned and lively style.
- Early Church · Instruction
The Paedagogus (The Instructor)
Christ the Word as tutor of his children: how Christians should eat, drink, dress and live.
- Early Church · Miscellany
The Stromata
Clement’s patchwork of notes on faith, philosophy, martyrdom and the true Christian ‘gnostic’, in eight books.
- Early Church · Sermon
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
A homily on the rich young ruler: wealth is not condemned, but the love of it is.
- Early Church · Apology
Address to the Greeks
Tatian explains why he left Greek learning for the ‘barbarian’ philosophy of the Christians.
- Early Church · Apology
To Autolycus
Three books to a pagan friend on God, the creation, the prophets and the Christian name.
- Early Church · Apology
A Plea for the Christians
A reasoned plea to the emperors: Christians are not atheists, and the charges laid against them are false.
- Early Church · Dialogue
Octavius
A dialogue on the seashore: a pagan speaks against the Christians, a Christian answers, and the judge decides.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Divine Institutes
Seven books that set out Christian belief for educated Romans, from false religion to true wisdom, justice and the happy life.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Trinity
Twelve books written in exile, against the Arians, on the Father, the Son and the Spirit.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Pastoral Rule
A handbook for bishops and priests on the care of souls: how a pastor should be chosen, live, teach and be humble.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Christian Faith (De fide)
Treatise by Ambrose of Milan.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Holy Spirit
Treatise by Ambrose of Milan.
- Early Church · Treatise
Concerning Virgins
Treatise by Ambrose of Milan.
- Early Church · Treatise
Concerning Widows
Treatise by Ambrose of Milan.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Death of Satyrus
Treatise by Ambrose of Milan.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Ambrose of Milan that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Luke 10:22 (Matthew 11:27)
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Apology
Apologia Contra Arianos
Apology by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Decretis
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Sententia Dionysii
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Ad Episcopus Aegypti et Libyae
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Apology
Apologia ad Constantium
Apology by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Apology
Apologia de Fuga
Apology by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Historia Arianorum
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Four Discourses Against the Arians: Discourse I
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Four Discourses Against the Arians: Discourse II
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Four Discourses Against the Arians: Discourse III
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Four Discourses Against the Arians: Discourse IV
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Synodis
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Ad Afros Epistola Synodica
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Treatise
Historia Acephala
Treatise by Athanasius of Alexandria.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Athanasius of Alexandria that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Resurrection of the Dead
Treatise by Athenagoras of Athens.
- Early Church · Treatise
Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Profit of Believing
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Continence
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Good of Marriage
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Holy Virginity
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Good of Widowhood
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Lying
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
To Consentius: Against Lying
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Work of Monks
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Patience
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Care to be Had For the Dead
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Morals of the Catholic Church
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Morals of the Manichaeans
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Mystical theology
The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology
The two works that shaped Eastern and Western mysticism (c. 500): the names by which God is praised, and the ascent through unknowing to the darkness above all light.
- Early Church · Treatise
Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus the Manichaean
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Mystical theology
The Celestial Hierarchy
Dionysius's account of the nine orders of angels, and how the divine light passes down through them to the church below.
- Early Church · Treatise
Reply to Faustus the Manichaean, Part 1
Reply to Faustus the Manichaean, by Augustine of Hippo: part 1 of 2 (Reply to Faustus the Manichaean: Book 1 to Reply to Faustus the Manichaean: Book 19).
- Early Church · Treatise
Reply to Faustus the Manichaean, Part 2
Reply to Faustus the Manichaean, by Augustine of Hippo: part 2 of 2 (Reply to Faustus the Manichaean: Book 20 to Reply to Faustus the Manichaean: Book 33).
- Early Church · Mystical theology
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
Dionysius on the church's own order: baptism, the Eucharist, chrism, the orders of the clergy, the consecration of monks and the burial of the dead.
- Early Church · Homilies
Fifty Spiritual Homilies
Fifty homilies of the Egyptian desert on the soul as the throne of God, prayer, the Spirit, the heart and the way of perfection; they shaped Eastern spirituality and, through Wesley, the Methodists.
- Early Church · Treatise
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Baptism, Against the Donatists
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Hymns
Selected Nisibene Hymns
Ephrem's hymns (c. 363–373) from the besieged and then ceded city of Nisibis: the siege, the Persian invasion, the bishops of the city, and Satan and death.
- Early Church · Hymns
Hymns on the Nativity
Nineteen of Ephrem's hymns for Christmas: Mary, the shepherds and the Magi, the Word made flesh, sung to answer the heresies of his day.
- Early Church · Treatise
Merits and Remission of Sin, and Infant Baptism
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Man's Perfection in Righteousness
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Hymns
Hymns for the Feast of the Epiphany
Fifteen hymns on the baptism of Christ in the Jordan, the descent of the Spirit, and the baptism of believers.
- Early Church · Hymns
The Pearl: Seven Hymns on the Faith
Ephrem takes a pearl in his hand and sees in it the faith: its light, its purity and its price, in seven hymns.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Proceedings of Pelagius
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Sermons
Three Homilies
Ephrem's homilies on our Lord, on admonition and repentance, and on the sinful woman.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Marriage and Concupiscence
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · History
The Ecclesiastical History
Theodoret's history of the church (c. 449), from the rise of Arius to 428: the Council of Nicaea, the Arian emperors, the Cappadocians and the monks of Syria.
- Early Church · Dialogue
Eranistes: Dialogues against the Monophysites
Theodoret's three dialogues (447) between an Orthodox man and a Beggar who gathers his beliefs from others, on the unchanging God and the two natures of Christ; the work for which he was condemned at Ephesus in 449 and vindicated at Chalcedon.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Soul and its Origin
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Grace and Free Will
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Great Catechism
Gregory's account of the Christian faith (c. 385) for teachers of the catechumens: God and the Word, creation and the fall, the incarnation and redemption, and baptism and the Eucharist, answering Jews and pagans.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Rebuke and Grace
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · History
The Ecclesiastical History
The first history of the church (c. 324), from the apostles to the Council of Nicaea: the succession of bishops, the heresies, the martyrs, and the conversion of Constantine.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Predestination of the Saints/Gift of Perseverance
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Harmony of the Gospels, Part 1
The Harmony of the Gospels, by Augustine of Hippo: part 1 of 2 (The Harmony of the Gospels: Chapter 1 to The Harmony of the Gospels: Chapter 1).
- Early Church · Treatise
The Harmony of the Gospels, Part 2
The Harmony of the Gospels, by Augustine of Hippo: part 2 of 2 (The Harmony of the Gospels: Chapter 2 to The Harmony of the Gospels: Chapter 10).
- Early Church · Treatise
Soliloquies
Treatise by Augustine of Hippo.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 3
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 3 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 4
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 4 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 5
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 5 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 6
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 6 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 7
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 7 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 8
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 8 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 9
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 9 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 10
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 10 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 11
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 11 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 12
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 12 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 13
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 13 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 14
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 14 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 15
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 15 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 16
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 16 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 17
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 17 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 18
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 18 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 19
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 19 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 20
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 20 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 21
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 21 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 22
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Augustine of Hippo that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 22 of 22).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Basil the Great that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 2).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Basil the Great that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 2).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Clement of Alexandria that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Clement of Rome that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Biography
The Life and Passion of Cyprian
Biography by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise II: On the Dress of Virgins
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise III: On the Lapsed
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise IV: On the Lord's Prayer
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise V: An Address to Demetrianus
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise VI: On the Vanity of Idols
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise VII: On the Mortality
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise VIII: On Works and Alms
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise IX: On Patience
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise X: On Jealousy and Envy
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise XI: Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
Treatise XII
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Seventh Council of Carthage
Treatise by Cyprian of Carthage.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Cyprian of Carthage that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 2).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Cyprian of Carthage that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 2).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Eusebius of Caesarea that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Gregory the Great that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Gregory of Nazianzus that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 2).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Gregory of Nazianzus that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 2).
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Eunomius, Part 1
Against Eunomius, by Gregory of Nyssa: part 1 of 3 (Against Eunomius: Book I to Against Eunomius: Book II).
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Eunomius, Part 2
Against Eunomius, by Gregory of Nyssa: part 2 of 3 (Against Eunomius: Book III to Against Eunomius: Book XI).
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Eunomius, Part 3
Against Eunomius, by Gregory of Nyssa: part 3 of 3 (Against Eunomius: Book XII to Against Eunomius: Book XII).
- Early Church · Treatise
Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Holy Spirit (Against the Followers of Macedonius)
Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit (To Eustathius)
Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Virginity
Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Infants' Early Deaths
Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Gregory of Nyssa that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Councils, or the Faith of the Easterns
Treatise by Hilary of Poitiers.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Hilary of Poitiers that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Ignatius of Antioch that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
Adversus haereses, Part 1
Adversus haereses, by Irenaeus of Lyons: part 1 of 2 (Preface to Adversus haereses: Chapter 8).
- Early Church · Treatise
Adversus haereses, Part 2
Adversus haereses, by Irenaeus of Lyons: part 2 of 2 (Adversus haereses: Chapter 9 to Adversus haereses: Chapter 36).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Irenaeus of Lyons that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
To Pammachius Against John of Jerusalem
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Biography
The Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk
Biography by Jerome.
- Early Church · Biography
The Life of S. Hilarion
Biography by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Jovinianus
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Vigilantius
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against the Pelagians
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
Prefaces
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Viris Illustribus (Illustrious Men)
Treatise by Jerome.
- Early Church · Apology
Apology for himself against the Books of Rufinus
Apology by Jerome.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Jerome that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 4).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Jerome that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 4).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 3
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Jerome that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 3 of 4).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 4
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Jerome that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 4 of 4).
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Incarnation of the Lord (Against Nestorius)
Treatise by John Cassian.
- Early Church · Treatise
No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself
Treatise by John Chrysostom.
- Early Church · Treatise
Instructions to Catechumens
Treatise by John Chrysostom.
- Early Church · Treatise
Correspondence with Pope Innocent I
Treatise by John Chrysostom.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 3
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 3 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 4
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 4 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 5
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 5 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 6
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 6 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 7
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 7 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 8
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 8 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 9
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 9 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 10
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 10 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 11
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 11 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 12
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 12 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 13
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 13 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 14
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 14 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 15
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 15 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 16
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 16 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 17
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 17 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 18
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 18 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 19
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 19 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 20
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 20 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 21
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 21 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 22
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 22 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 23
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 23 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 24
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 24 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 25
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 25 of 26).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 26
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by John Chrysostom that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 26 of 26).
- Early Church · Treatise
Hortatory Address to the Greeks
Treatise by Justin Martyr.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Sole Government of God
Treatise by Justin Martyr.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Justin Martyr that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Treatise by Lactantius.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Anger of God
Treatise by Lactantius.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Workmanship of God
Treatise by Lactantius.
- Early Church · Treatise
Of the Manner In Which the Persecutors Died
Treatise by Lactantius.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Lactantius that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Leo the Great that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 2).
- Early Church · Collection
Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Leo the Great that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 2).
- Early Church · Treatise
Origen to Africanus
Treatise by Origen.
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Other Writings, Part 1
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Origen that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 1 of 3).
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Other Writings, Part 2
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Origen that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 2 of 3).
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Other Writings, Part 3
Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Origen that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection (part 3 of 3).
- Early Church · Treatise
The Diatessaron
Treatise by Tatian.
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Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Tatian that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
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On Idolatry
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Spectaculis (The Shows)
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Corona (The Chaplet)
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Ad Nationes
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
An Answer to the Jews
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Soul's Testimony
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
A Treatise on the Soul
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Hermogenes
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against the Valentinians
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Flesh of Christ
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Against Praxeas
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Scorpiace
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Appendix (Against All Heresies)
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Repentance
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
Of Patience
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Pallium
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Apparel of Women
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On the Veiling of Virgins
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
To His Wife
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Exhortation to Chastity
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Monogamy
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Modesty
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
On Fasting
Treatise by Tertullian.
- Early Church · Treatise
De Fuga in Persecutione
Treatise by Tertullian.
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Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Tertullian that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.
- Early Church · Treatise
Counter-Statements to Cyril's 12 Anathemas against Nestorius
Treatise by Theodoret of Cyrus.
- Early Church · Treatise
Demonstrations by Syllogism
Treatise by Theodoret of Cyrus.