Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Classics)

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.

• The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine (Classics)
• On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius (Popular Patristics Series Book 44)
• The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30 (Classics)
• The Georgics of Virgil
• The Rule of St. Benedict in English
• Christological Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought)
• The Penguin History of the Church: The Early Church
• On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (Popular Patristics Series Book 23)
• Trinitarian Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought)
• Three Treatises on the Divine Images: Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images