The Library of Christian Classics Early Christian Fathers
Type
Book
Authors
Category
The Fathers
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Publication Year
1953
Publisher
The Westminster Press, United States
Volume
1
Pages
415
Series Name
Description
This volume provides an introduction to early Christian literature and its setting, with basic writings of the first two centuries rendered by fresh, new translations into clear, readable English.
The selections include, first, one of the earliest Christian documents the Church possesses, Clement's First Letter, written about A.D. 96. Following are The Letters of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, to the Philippians; The Martyrdom of Polycarp, as Told in the Letter of the Church of Smyrna to the Church of Philomelium; The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Commonly Called the Didache; An Anonymous Sermon, Commonly Called Clement's Second Letter; The So-called Letter to Diognetus; The First Apology of Justin, the Martyr; A Plea Regarding Christians by Athenagoras, the Philosopher; and Selections from the Work Against Heresies by Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons.
The usefulness of this volume is heightened by the thorough yet concise introductions to the selections, the new and clarifying notes which add greatly to the understanding of the writings, and the exceptionally rich annotated bibliographies for the use of the serious scholar.
Roland H. Bainton says of this volume, "The selection is discriminating, the introductions state the essentials, the bibliographies guide the inquiring, while the footnotes elucidate the obscure."
Early Christian Fathers offers the student, minister, or interested layman a vivid picture of the Early Christian Church through its literature, at the same time preserving in a new and completely documented form these important classics of the Church.
The Editor
Cyril C. Richardson, editor of Early Christian Fathers, collaborated with Eugene R. Fairweather, Edward Rochie Hardy, and Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr., to produce this outstanding volume.
Dr. Richardson was born in London, England, and educated in Canada and the United States. He got his B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; L.Th. from Emmanuel College, Canada; S.T.M. and Th.D. from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He also has a D.D. from Emmanuel College. Dr. Richardson has been teaching Church History at Union Theological Seminary since 1934. His previous books include The Christianity of Ignatius of Antioch, The Church Through the Centuries, The Sacrament of Reunion, The Eucharist in Zwingli and Cranmer, and The Pocket Bible (editor). Dr. Richardson is one of the United States' most able Church scholars. His collaborators are also noted in their fields. Eugene R. Fairweather, Th.D., is Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Trinity College, Toronto; Edward Rochie Hardy, Ph.D., is Professor of Church History in the Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven; and Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr., Ph.D., is Professor of Liturgics, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California.
Taken from the inside flaps.
WARNING! THIS BOOK CONTAINS HERESY.
The selections include, first, one of the earliest Christian documents the Church possesses, Clement's First Letter, written about A.D. 96. Following are The Letters of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, to the Philippians; The Martyrdom of Polycarp, as Told in the Letter of the Church of Smyrna to the Church of Philomelium; The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Commonly Called the Didache; An Anonymous Sermon, Commonly Called Clement's Second Letter; The So-called Letter to Diognetus; The First Apology of Justin, the Martyr; A Plea Regarding Christians by Athenagoras, the Philosopher; and Selections from the Work Against Heresies by Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons.
The usefulness of this volume is heightened by the thorough yet concise introductions to the selections, the new and clarifying notes which add greatly to the understanding of the writings, and the exceptionally rich annotated bibliographies for the use of the serious scholar.
Roland H. Bainton says of this volume, "The selection is discriminating, the introductions state the essentials, the bibliographies guide the inquiring, while the footnotes elucidate the obscure."
Early Christian Fathers offers the student, minister, or interested layman a vivid picture of the Early Christian Church through its literature, at the same time preserving in a new and completely documented form these important classics of the Church.
The Editor
Cyril C. Richardson, editor of Early Christian Fathers, collaborated with Eugene R. Fairweather, Edward Rochie Hardy, and Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr., to produce this outstanding volume.
Dr. Richardson was born in London, England, and educated in Canada and the United States. He got his B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; L.Th. from Emmanuel College, Canada; S.T.M. and Th.D. from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He also has a D.D. from Emmanuel College. Dr. Richardson has been teaching Church History at Union Theological Seminary since 1934. His previous books include The Christianity of Ignatius of Antioch, The Church Through the Centuries, The Sacrament of Reunion, The Eucharist in Zwingli and Cranmer, and The Pocket Bible (editor). Dr. Richardson is one of the United States' most able Church scholars. His collaborators are also noted in their fields. Eugene R. Fairweather, Th.D., is Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Trinity College, Toronto; Edward Rochie Hardy, Ph.D., is Professor of Church History in the Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven; and Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr., Ph.D., is Professor of Liturgics, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California.
Taken from the inside flaps.
WARNING! THIS BOOK CONTAINS HERESY.
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