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Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1987-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0141915307 |
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The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death.
Author | : Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.) |
Publisher | : The Newman Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809104543 |
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This work, which establishes Irenaeus as the most important of the theologians of the second century, is a detailed and effective refutation of Gnosticism, and a major source of information on the various Gnostic sects and doctrines. This volume contains Book One. +
Author | : Saint Paulinus (of Nola) |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809100897 |
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Author | : John Cassian |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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THE obligation, which was promised to the blessed Pope Castor in the preface to those volumes which with God's help I composed in twelve books on the Institutes of the Coenobia, and the remedies for the eight principal faults, has now been, as far as my feeble ability permitted, satisfied. I should certainly like to see what was the opinion fairly arrived at on this work both by his judgment and yours, whether, on a matter so profound and so lofty, and one which has never yet been made the subject of a treatise, we have produced anything worthy of your notice, and of the eager desire of all the holy brethren. But now as the aforesaid Bishop has left us and departed to Christ, meanwhile these ten Conferences of the grandest of the Fathers, viz., the Anchorites who dwelt in the desert of Scete, which he, fired with an incomparable desire for saintliness, had bidden me write for him in the same style (not considering in the greatness of his affection, what a burden he placed on shoulders too weak to bear it)--these Conferences I have thought good to dedicate to you in particular, O blessed Pope, Leontius, and holy brother Helladius. Aeterna Press
Author | : Bart D. Ehrman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195182491 |
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The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by Jesus' own followers. Scrupulously researched and lucidly written, Lost Christianities is an eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its views prevail.
Author | : Saint Isidore (of Seville) |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780809105816 |
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This is the first complete English translation of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis (DEO) of St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636), considered the last Latin Father of the Church. The work is an invaluable source of information about liturgical practice and church offices.
Author | : Atanasio (Santo) |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder and father of monasticism. +
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publisher | : Hendrickson Publishers |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Christian literature, Early |
ISBN | : 1565633547 |
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So many concerns of today's world require nuanced consideration and a sensitive response. Yet human nature and spiritual need remain remarkably constant. Practical, moral, and spiritual struggles are not peculiar to modern life. Early Christians looked at all things through the lens of God and Christ, including those that today we would consider secular in nature, as the wide range of subjects these writers addressed clearly demonstrates. The words of Christian writers such as Tertullian, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Basil of Caesarea, and Clement of Alexandria are organized around familiar, everyday themes. In study, reflection, or devotional reading, use this book to look through their eyes at our issues -- and, perhaps, find a deepened and sharpened awareness of what it means to choose the Christian life. Introduced, organized, and translated by Everett Ferguson, these quotes are arranged to allow the ancient authors to speak for themselves. Inheriting Wisdom will refresh modern readers with the rich resources of early Christianity and provide direction and guidance for the twenty-first century.
Author | : Palladius (Bishop of Aspuna) |
Publisher | : The Newman Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Desert Fathers |
ISBN | : 9780809100835 |
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Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or heard of. The work, dating from 419 or 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.
Author | : Augustinus, |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780809104062 |
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Composed in 413, this work refutes certain writings that taught that good works were not necessary to obtain eternal life, that faith alone was sufficient for salvation. +