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The Fathers of the Church

Can any who spend several years in those seats of learning, be excused if they do not add to that reading of the Fathers? the most authentic commentators on Scripture, as being both nearest the fountain, eminently endued with that Spirit by whom all Scripture was given. It will be easily perceived, I speak chiefly of those who wrote before the council of Nicea. But who could not likewise desire to have some acquaintance with those that followed them? with St. Chrysostom, Basil, Augustine, and above all, the man of a broken heart, Ephraim Syrus?

-- John Wesley


Links to other Internet sites that contain documents concerning the Church Fathers

New Advent: Fathers of the Church
Early Church Fathers
Guide to Early Church Documents
St. Pachomius Library
Historic Documents of the Church
The Ecole Initiative -- An On-Line Encyclopedia of Early Church
History
 

The Fathers

The Twelve Apostles

The Didache

 
Clement of Rome
First Clement -- c. 96
Second Clement -- c. 150
 
Barnabas
 

Papias

Fragments of Papias
 

Mathetes

 
Hermas
 
Polycarp
 
Miscellaneous Writings
The Epistle of Adrian in behalf of the Christians
The Epistle of Antoninus
The Epistle of Marcus Aurelius to the Senate
 

Ignatius -- ?-c. 108

The Generally accepted Epistles of Ignatius

Other Spurious Epistles in the name of Ignatius
 
Justin Martyr -- c. 100 - c. 165
 
 
Irenaeus of Lyons -- c. 130 - c. 200
 
Tertullian -- c.150-c.212
Patience
Prayer
Spectacles
The Apparel of Women
To the Martyrs
 
Eusebius of Caesarea -- c.260-340
Church History
 
Athanasius -- c.296-373
On the Incarnation
 
Basil the Great -- c.330-379
BASIL THE GREAT, Second Epistle
BASIL THE GREAT, Seventh Epistle
BASIL THE GREAT, Eighth Epistle
 
St. Jerome -- 331-420
Letters and Selected Works
 
John Chrysostom -- c.350-407
Homilies on Matthew
Homilies on John and Hebrews
Homilies on Acts and Romans
Commentary and Homilies on Galatians and Ephesians
Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
Homilies on 1st & 2nd Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
Various Homilies, Letters and Treatise by Chrysostom
 

Augustine -- 354-430

Confessions
Enchiridion
Dialectica
On Christian Doctrine
The Letters of St. Augustine
The Anti-Manichaean and Anti-Donatist Writings of Augustine

 
Theodore of Studium
THEODORE OF STUDIUM: Selected Poems, with the Letter to Casia
Theodore of Studium: TWENTY-SEVENTH DISCOURSE
Theodore of Studium: SIXTY-FIRST DISCOURSE
 
Methodius of Olympus
Methodius of Olympus, ORATION ON SIMEON AND ANNA
 
Gregory of Nazianzen
 
Anastasius the Librarian

 

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