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Early Church Fathers

St. Augustine, by Sandro Botticelli [Public Domain Image]

 


This section of sacred-texts presents a comprehensive collection of early Christian writings.


 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I
The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeaus

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II
Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian; I. Apologetic; II. Anti-Marcion; III. Ethical

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV
Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second.

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V
Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI
Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII
Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies.

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII
Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IX
Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature; Commentaries of Origen: The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Visio Pauli, The Apocalypses of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (Complete Text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books I-X, Origen’s Commentary on Mathew, Books I, II, and X-XIV

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I
The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life and Work

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II
St. Augustin’s City of God and Christian Doctrine

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity; Doctrinal Treatises; Moral Treatises

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV
St. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V
St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI
St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII
St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John; Homilies on the First Epistle of John; Soliloquies

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII
St. Augustin: Expositions on the Book of Psalms

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IX
Saint Chrysostom: On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statues

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. X
Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Gospel of St. Matthew

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XI
Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Acts and Romans

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XII
Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Corinthians

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIII
Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIV
Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. I
Eusebius: Church History; Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. II
Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen: Ecclesiastical Histories

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III
Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, and Rufinus: Historical Writings

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. IV
Athanasius: Select Works and Letters

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. V
Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, etc.

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI
Jerome: Letters and Select Works

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VII
Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII
Basil: Letters and Select Works

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. IX
Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. X
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XII
Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIII
Gregory the Great (II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat

 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV
The Seven Ecumenical Councils


Production Notes

This section is based on texts transcribed by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. [External Site]

These files were generated from XML source files at the CCEL, using procedures and programs developed at sacred-texts. Some of the files in each text are blank; however, no actual text is missing, these are simply places where a section break occurred.

Volumes 4, 5 and 6 in the Ante-Nicene Fathers were not yet available in XML source form when this section was developed, so these have some formatting problems: notably, missing greek text. We will rebuild these files from XML once CCEL has completed them, at which time their file breakdown may change.