Möhler. La patrologie, ou Histoire littéraire des trois premiers siècles de l’Eglise Chrétienne. Volumes I & II. 1843.

La patrologie, ou Histoire littéraire des trois premiers siècles de l’Eglise Chrétienne

Oeuvre posthume de J.-A. Moehler,
publiée
par F.-X. Reithmayer,
Professeur extraordinaire de Théologie a l’Université Louis-Maximilien, à Munich,
Traduite de l’allemand
Par Jean Cohen,
Bibliothécaire à Sainte-Geneviève.
PARIS. Debécourt, Libraire-Éditeur, Rue des Saints-Péres, 64. 1843.

Author Möhler, Johann Adam, 1796-1838
Publication date 1843
Topics Fathers of the church, Christian literature, Early, Church history
Publisher Paris : Debécourt
Collection pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor University of Toronto
Contributor PIMS – University of Toronto
Language French
Volumes 1 & 2
Call number 3019519

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Willis. Collectanea Graeca et Latina, selections from the Greek and Latin Fathers, with notes biographical and illustrative. 1865.

Collectanea Graeca et Latina,

selections from the Greek and Latin Fathers,

with notes biographical and illustrative

(1865)

Author: Willis, M
Subject: Greek literature; Patristic literature
Publisher: Toronto, Rowsell
Language: Latin; Ancient Greek
Call number: AWF-7352
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Book contributor: Robarts – University of Toronto
Collection: robarts; toronto
Notes: some narrow margins

Willis. Collectanea Graeca et Latina, selections from the Greek and Latin Fathers, with notes biographical …

Plummer. The church of the early Fathers; external history. 1890.

THE CHURCH

OF THE

EARLY FATHERS

EXTERNAL HISTORY

BY

ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., D.D.

MASTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DURHAM
FORMERLY FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD

FOURTH EDITION

LONDON
LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16 tn STREET
1890

The Christian Church has three ideals set before it in Scripture to be Universal, to be Holy, and to be One. It is to ‘ make disciples of all the nations.’ It is to be ‘ without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.’ It is to ‘ become one flock ‘ with a union between its members admitting of no lower standard than the Unity of the Divine Persons in the Godhead. The external history of the Church is the history of the attempt to realise the first of these three ideals; its internal history tells of the attempt to realise the second and third. The three taken together sum up what is meant by ecclesiastical history the history of the spread of Christianity and of the development of Christian life and Christian doctrine. Thus a convenient division of the subject is at once suggested. Only the first of these three points is treated in this handbook the progress of the Church in the attempt to become universal, including all that impeded that progress, especially literary attack and civil persecution. The worship and discipline of the Church and the development of its doctrine, though often touched upon, are reserved for treatment in a separate volume.

The present sketch is limited to the Ante-Nicene period, and indeed to only a portion of that. Neither the Apostolic Age nor the history of Arianism falls within its scope. Its limits are, roughly speaking, the second and third centuries, or, more exactly, the period from the death of St. John, about a.d. 100, to the Edict of Toleration published at Milan by Constantine and Licinius a.d. 312 or 318.

It is obvious that in a volume of this size nothing more than a sketch can be attempted ; but help will be offered to the student who desires to have fuller information and to examine original sources for himself. A list is given of some of the best and most easily accessible authorities, especially in the English language, together with the chief ancient witnesses from whom the information given by modern writers is ultimately derived. Perhaps in no branch of history is it more important to study original authorities than in the history of Christianity daring the second and third centuries. Neither in number nor in bulk are these sources so formidable as in the later periods of Church history ; so that the ordinary student may hope to do a good deal in the attempt to make himself acquainted with primary materials. Moreover, nearly all these early writings have been translated ; so that even those who are unable to read Latin or Greek are nevertheless able to obtain fairly accurate knowledge of what these early writers in their own words tell us. This handbook will have failed in one of its objects if it does not lead some of those who use it to check its statements by a comparison with standard works, and above all by an appeal to the original authorities.

As references are almost entirely forbidden by the plan of this series, the compiler of this volume is unable to express in detail his obligations to other writers.
They are very numerous to a large number of the works mentioned below, especially to those of Bishop Lightfoot and Dr. Schaff, and to the ‘ Dictionary of Christian Biography ‘ edited by Smith and Wace. An asterisk is prefixed to the name of modern writers whose writings are of special importance.

Tuker, Malleson. Handbook to Christian and Ecclesiastical Rome. 1900.

HANDBOOK TO CHRISTIAN

AND

ECCLESIASTICAL ROME

BY

M. A. R. TUKER

AND

HOPE MALLESON

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1900

PART I. THE CRISTIAN MONUMENTS OF ROME
PART II. THE LITURGY IN ROME
PART III. MONASTICISM IN ROME
PART IV. ECCLESIASTICAL ROME

PREFACE.

This Handbook is intended to give the visitor to Rome full information about the Christian side of its history, about Roman churches, ceremonies, and customs, which does not fall within the scope of such an excellent Handbook as that of Messrs. Murray’s general Guide.

It was to have formed one volume, but the matter gradually exceeded all limits ; and it is now hoped that this little series of books (of which the present is much the largest) may prove as convenient, dealing as each volume will do, with a subject complete in itself.

We cannot hope that among so much detail we have been able to avoid all error ; nor that we have always made the same choice as all our readers would have done, as to what pieces of information to give, and what to reluctantly withhold. When a choice has had to be made, we have elected to tell what is less generally known.

There’ remains only the pleasure of recalling the many kindnesses we have received, and of taking this opportunity of thanking all who have helped us with information, or by suggesting books.

Our gratitude is specially due to Monsignor J, A. Campbell, Rector of the Scotch College in Rome, for unwearied helpfulness, and readiness in answering an infinity of questions, and for the courtesy of placing his library at our disposal : and for the kind help given us by Padre Semeria, Barnabite.

For the archaeological portion of this handbook we are much indebted to conferences held on the spot by the late Commendatore G.-B. De Rossi, and by his pupil Professor Orazio Marucchi. And we desire also to thank Professor Barnabei and the Ministry of Public Instruction in Rome for facilities courteously afforded us.



Brockelmann. Geschichte der christlichen Litteraturen des Orients. 1909.

Geschichte der christlichen Litteraturen des Orients

(1909)

Author: Brockelmann, Carl, 1868-1956
Subject: Semitic literature — History and criticism; Armenian literature — History and criticism; Christian literature — History and criticism
Publisher: Leipzig C.F. Amelangs
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: German
Call number: ABE-8492
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Book contributor: Robarts – University of Toronto
Collection: toronto

Inhalt.

Brockelmann, Die syrische und die christlich-arabische Litteratur 1

I. Die Anfänge der syrischen Litteratur in heidnischer Zeit 3
II Die Anfänge der christlichen Litteratur 7
III. Die älteste Litteratur in Edessa 10
IV. Die ältesten Klassiker: Aphraates und Ephraem, Balai und Cyrillonas 15
V. Die Zeit der Kirchenspaltung 22
VI. Die Anfänge der syrischen Geschichtschreibung 30
VII. Übersetzungen und profane Wissenschaften 40
VIII. Der Niedergang der syrischen Litteratur bis zur und unter der arabischen Herrschaft 45
IX. Die syrische Litteratur unter der islamischen Herrschaft im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert 51
X. Die syrische Litteratur im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert 55
XI. Die syrische Litteratur im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert 58
XII. Anfänge einer neusyrischen Volkslitteratur 65
XIII. Die Litteratur der Christen in Palästina 66
XIV. Die christlich-arabische Litteratur 67

Finck, Geschichte der armenischen Litteratur 75

Einleitung 77
I. Das goldene Zeitalter (5. Jahrhundert] 82
II Die Zeit der Nachblute (6.— 11. Jahrhundert) 99
III Die Zeit der Wiederbelebung des Klassizismus und der Anfänge eines volkstümlichen Schrifttums (12. Jahrhundert) 111
IV. Die Zeit des Niederganges (13.— 18. Jahrhundert) …. 122:

Leipoldt, Geschichte der koptischen Litteratur . . 131

Littmann, Geschichte der äthiopischen Litteratur . 185

Vorbemerkung 187
Historische Einleitung 189
I. Geschichtlicher Überblick über die Entwicklung der äthiopischen Litteratur 202
1. Die aksumitische Periode 203
2. Die Periode des Wiedererwachens der weltlichen und geistlichen Macht 204
3. Die Zeit des Königs Zar’a Yä’kob und seiner nächsten Nachfolger 208
4. Die Zeit der grofsen Kriege gegen Muslimen und Galla und der ersten Religionsstreitigkeiten von 1520-1600 215
5. Die Zeit der Religionskämpfe im 17, Jahrhundert . 219

II. Die einzelnen Litteraturzweige 223
1. Die Bibel 223
2. Theologische und kirchliche Litteratur 228
3. Magische Litteratur 234
4. Geschichtliche Litteratur 240
5. Andere Profanlitteratur. Philosophie , Philologie, Rechtslitteratur 254
6. Volkslitteratur 260

Quellennachweise 270

Register 271

Giles. The writings of the early Christians of the 2nd century : namely, Athanagoras, Tatian, Theophilus, Hermias, Papias, Aristides, Quadratus, etc. 1857.

THE WRITINGS
OF
THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
OF
THE SECOND CENTURY;

NAMELY,
ATHENAGORAS, TATIAN, THEOPHILUS, HERMIAS, PAPIAS,
ARISTIDES, QUADRATUS, &c.

COLLECTED TOGETHER AND FIRST TRANSLATED COMPLETE
BY
THE REV. DR. GILES,
LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.

LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
MDCCCLVII.

THE second century of the Christian era, though abounding in deviations from the simplicity of primitive faith and practice, yet presents a more inviting field of inquiry to the student of Christian literature, which may in fact be said then to begin. It is not surprising that for seventy years from the crucifixion, whilst the first disciples were busy in teaching, few would think of writing about what occupied so momentous a place in the course of their daily life. But, when the first progress of the new religion had been made, the Christian society naturally turned their attention to write as well as to teach; a literature then begun to grow which was destined to occupy in the end quite as much of the world s attention as the classics of Greece and Home. Still, it must not be supposed that the Christian writings of the second century are very numerous. With the exception of Justin Martyr, the Sibylline Books, the Uncanonical Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, and the Legends of Early Martyrs, all the writings which belong to the second century are comprised in this volume.

Ferrar. The early Christian books, a short introduction to Christian literature to the middle of the Second Century. 1919.

THE EARLY

CHRISTIAN BOOKS

A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE TO THE MIDDLE OF
THE SECOND CENTURY

BY

WILLIAM JOHN FERRAR, M. A.
VICAR OF EAST FINCHLEY, LATE SCHOLAR OF HERTFORD COLLEGE, OXFORD

WITH A FOREWORD BY THE
BISHOP OF LONDON

LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRSITIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919

It is to gather together in a compact form what is known of the earliest writings of Christianity outside the New Testament, that these short studies are written. They lay no claim to originality, they simply attempt to reproduce the opinions of the best scholars. At the same time the writings themselves have been studied in detail. An effort has been made to set each book in its historical setting, to let the writer by means of summaries and quotations speak for himself, and to lay special emphasis on passages which describe with any vividness the actual life of the developing Church. The Bibliography will show where fuller knowledge of these books and of the age in which they were written can be found.

CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION v
BIBLIOGRAPHY xiii
TABLE OF DATES xvii
EPISTLE OF CLEMENT OF ROME I
A HOMILY BY AN UNKNOWN WRITER 10
THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS 13
THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP 20
THE LETTER OF THE SMYRNÆANS 24
THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES (THE DIDACHE) 30
THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS 37
THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS 42
THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS 50
PAPIAS 55
GNOSTIC SYSTEMS 60
APOCRYPHAL BOOKS 65
THE ODES OF SOLOMON 76
JUSTIN MARTYR 81
THE APOLOGY OF ARISTIDES 91
TATIAN’S ORATION AND DIATESSARON 98
INDEX 105

Σχολάριος, Δωρόθεος. Ταμείον της πατρολογίας. 1883-1887.

Title: Ταμείον της πατρολογίας : ήτοι Συλλογή των εν τη Πατρολογία τη υπό Μιγνίου (Migne) εν Παρισίοις εκδοθείση περιεχομένων κυριοτέρων εννοιών, φράσεων και υποθέσεων, αις συμπεριελήφθησαν ουκ ολίγα και εκ των Βυζαντινών Ιστορικών, εκ των Ευσταθίου εις Όμηρον παρεκβολών και εξ Ελλήνων ποιητών και λογογράφων / Υπό Δωροθέου Σχολαρίου πρώην Μητροπολίτου Λαρίσσης του Θεσσαλού, υφ’ ου και νυν πρώτον εκδίδοται επιμελεία Γαβριήλ Σοφοκλέους συντάξαντος και τους εν τη βίβλω ταύτη Πίνακας.
Creator: Σχολάριος, Δωρόθεος,
Publication Date: 1883-1887.

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Σχολάριος, Δωρόθεος. Ταμείον της πατρολογίας ήτοι Συλλογή των εν τη Πατρολογία τη υπό Μιγνίου. Τ2 Γ-Θ

Walter Bauer – Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity.

ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY
by Walter Bauer

Second German Edition
ed and supplemented by Georg Strecker
[Copyright J.C.B.Mohr, T&uumlbingen, 1964]

English Translation
ed and supplemented by Robert A. Kraft
and Gerhard Kroedel
with a team from the
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
[Copyright Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1971]

Updated Electronic English Edition
by Robert A. Kraft
[Copyright Robert A. Kraft, 25 February 1991]

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Bauer – Orthodoxy and Heresy

Origen and Greek patristic theology (1901)

THE WORLD S EPOCH-MAKERS

Origen and Greek Patristic Theology

By

Rev. William Fairweather, M.A.

Edinburgh. T. & T. Clark
1901

THIS volume cannot claim to be written in the popular style adopted in some other volumes of the series, for the simple reason that the subject scarcely admits of being popularised. At the same time I have tried to make the book readable, and to refrain as far as possible from undue technicalities of philosophical and theological language. It has been my aim to avoid on the one hand the Scylla of catering for a public which no art or device will ever induce to concern itself about Greek Patristic Theology, and, on the other, the Charybdis of scholastic pedantry. Rightly or wrongly, I am convinced that my task will be most usefully accomplished by furnishing a brief introduction to the study of a subject on which, in English at least, there are not too many easily accessible helps. In view of the impossibility of assuming any very intimate knowledge of Origen s writings on the part of the general reader, or even of the average theological student, I have further deemed it best, while not refraining from criticism where it seemed called for, to aim at being expository rather than critical.
In no sense does the book pretend to be a treatment of the third century. Any attempt to deal with the Church life of the period is debarred by the limits of the present series. Such a method of treatment may sometimes have its advantages, but it necessarily throws into the background the personality of the individual. In the following pages it has been my endeavour to concentrate attention upon the life and writings, the doctrine and influence, of the great teacher of the Greek Church. Chapter I. is introductory, and intended to lead up to the main subject by showing to what extent the way had already been prepared for Origen. I regret that considerations of space do not admit of prefixing as Prolegomena a sketch of the birthplace and background of the Greek theology, and of the Apologists of the second century; but while this may be a desideratum from the point of view of the scientific student, the educated layman will probably count it no loss. Chapters XI.-XIV. form, so to speak, the epilogue, and indicate the nature and extent of Origen s influence upon subsequent theological thought.
I have deemed it advisable to devote a separate chapter to the life of Origen, instead of adopting the perhaps more scientific, but immensely more complicated plan of weaving in the biographical details with other matter in strict chronological sequence.
Although in a monogram upon Origen more might, no doubt, be made of this aspect of the subject, I venture to hope that nothing very material has been omitted; but in any case it seems more important to make room for some adequate account of the writings and theology of one who did so much to " make Christianity a part of the civilisation of the world & than to tell with fuller detail the story of his life.
To those who may be inclined to question the utility of studying the writings of an old-world personage like Origen, and to consider him as of little significance for those living in the twentieth century, it may be pointed out that the theme discussed seems likely to assume growing importance in relation to present-day problems in theology. There is a prevailing disposition to get back to the sources, and it is not to be forgotten that it was the Greek Fathers who laid the foundations of theological science. An American author, Professor A. V. G. Allen, in the Preface to a work the title of which is given below, says: “If I were revising my book I should try to enforce more than I have done the importance of the work of Origen. He was a true specimen of a great theologian, the study of whose life is of special value to-day, as a corrective against that tendency to underrate dogma in our reaction from outgrown dogmas, or the disposition to treat the feel ings and instincts of our nature as if they were a final refuge from the reason, instead of a means to a larger use of the reason, a process which, it is to be feared, in many is closely allied with the temper which leads men to seek shelter in an infallible Church." In view of subsequent developments of theological thought, within the Greek Church and beyond it, it is equally important to note that while Origen valued dogma, he abjured dogmatism. He refused to make man s blessedness conditional upon the acceptance of certain shibboleths. Although speculative to the verge of audacity, he never failed to distinguish between his own opinions and the rule of faith as contained in Holy Scripture. If he himself was disposed to rate knowledge too highly, at all events he did not confuse it with faith, but was quite explicit in his declaration that the word of God is the sole source of absolute certitude, and the sole repository of essential truth. It would have been well for the Greek Church if she had clung to this position. As it was, she did not properly discriminate between the matter of revelation and the scientific handling of it, and ultimately succumbed under the incubus of a dead orthodoxy.
It only remains to mention the principal works consulted in the preparation of this volume. Apart from Origen s own writings, I have derived most help from Redepenning s Origenes:
Eine Darstellung seines Lebens und seiner Lehre, 2 vols., Bonn, 1841-46;
Pressense s The Early Years of Christianity, 1879 ;
Denis De La Philosophic d Origene, Paris, 1884 ;
Bigg s The Christian Platonists of Alexandria, 1886 ;
Harnack s History of Dogma, Eng. tr. 1894-1899 ;
and the Church Histories of Mosheim, Neander, and Kurtz.
The followingo; works have also been useful:
Schnitzer, Origenes uber die Grundlehren der Glaubenswissenschaft, Stuttgart, 1835;
Hagenbaeh s History of Christian Doctrines, Eng. tr. 1846;
Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought, 1884;
Allin, Race and Religion, 1899;
and the articles on Origen in Chambers s Encyclopaedia, Smith smdWsices Dictionary of Christian Biography, Smith s Diet, of Greek and Roman Biography, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The translations of passages quoted from the writings of Origen are mostly taken from the two volumes published in The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, but sometimes they are those of Bigg or Pressense, and in a few instances they are my own.

W. FAIRWEATHER.

KIRKCALDY, September 1901.

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Stearns: A manual of patrology

A

MANUAL OF PATROLOGY

BEING A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE
CHIEF PERSONS, SECTS, ORDERS, ETC.
IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY
FROM THE FIRST CENTURY TO THE PERIOD OF
THE REFORMATION

With Select Bibliographical References
BY

WALLACE NELSON STEARNS, A.M., B.D.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
J. H. THAYER, D.D., Litt.D.
PKOFESSOR IN THE DIVINITY SCHOOL OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1899

IN the preparation of this manual I have endeavored to present the material with as much brevity as is compatible with accuracy and utility. The body of the book contains a list of the names of the more important personages in Christian history from the first century to the period of the Reformation.
To this are added the titles of selected works from these men, together with critical and biographical books. The names of the leading writers are also arranged in a chronological table so that the eye may see at a glance their relative places in history. The map shows the topography of the places mentioned in the Patrology ; for the sake of clearness geographical details are omitted. Where numerous references occur, the various classes of works, viz., editions, translations, biographies and critical works, are placed in separate paragraphs in the order here given. But wherever the classes contain each but a single reference (y. Atticus), they all stand in the same paragraph and are separated by periods.
In the selection of materials (see also the Table of Abbreviations) I have relied on such historical works as those of Giildenpenning, Hertzberg, Diehl, Hodgkin, Gibbon (ed. Bury), Creighton, Delarc, Baronius (ed. Theiner), Weingarten (ed. Arnold), Mabillon, Mansi, Christ, D’Archery and Mabillon, Cave, Tillemont, Zbckler, the Bollandists, and others ; encyclopedias, as La grande Encyclope’die, Dictionary of National Biography, many articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, Brockhaus’s Konversations-Lexicon; church histories, as Hergenrb’ther, Moeller, Miillcr, Funk, Giesler, Milman, Schaff, Sheldon ; also lists of councils and Popes, Duchesne, Hefele, Lauchert, Lipsius, Grisar, Pastor, Mirbt, Ranke, Stubbs; histories of doctrine, Ilarnack, Schwane, Sheldon, Fisher ; collections, Sathas, Hilgenfeld, Clement, Cotelerius, Chevalier, and others ; compends, as Bratke, Dowling, Mas- Latrie, Gregory, Lumper, Merechal, Richardson. The topography of the map is based on Kiepert, Spruner-Menke, Droysen, Appleton, Walker, Andree, Rand-McNally ; Graesse, Egli, Ritter, Armstrong.
The student may be disappointed in not seeing more references to the journals and quarterlies. While they have been used, citations have seldom been made, for such additions increase volume and cost while adding little value for the general reader, to whom such literature is usually inaccessible.
I am indebted to the Rev. G. A. Jackson, author of the ” Christian Literature Primers,” who has read the proof of the Patrology (pp. 1-159). His wide and critical knowledge has prevented many errors of omission and commission. I wish also to express my appreciation of the valuable services of Professor Henry C. Sheldon of the Boston University School of Theology, and Assistant-Professor James H. Ropes of the Harvard Divinity School.

The following references were either overlooked by me or came to my hand too late to appear in their proper places :
P. 3. Paul, Acts of ; Peter, Acts of : Coptic fragments edited by Carl Schmidt in Neue Heidelb. Jahrbb. ’97, pp. 117 ff. John, Acts of : M. R. James in T. und U. v. 1.
P. 3. Voight, H. G. Adalbert. Berlin ’98.
P. 6. Gelzer, H. Sextus Julius Africanus. u. die Byzantinische Chronographie. 2d Th. Leip.’ 98.
P. 7. Foss, J. R. Agobard, Archbishop of Lyons. ’98.
P. 23. Aristo of Pella. F. C. Conybeare in “The Expositor” for ’97, pp. 300 ff.
P. 26. Bruder, C. H. S. Aurelii Augustini Confessiones. Leip. ’97.
P. 32. Vacaudard, E. Bernard of Clairvaux. 2 vols. Paris’97.
P. 39. Baumgarten, P. M. Untersuchungen u. Urkunden über die camera Collegii cardinalium fur die Zeit von 1295 bis 1437. Leip. ’98.
P. 54. Turner, S. E. Trans, of Eginhard’s Life of Charlemagne.N. Y. and Lond. ’98.
P. 56. Epp. Apocr. : C. Schmidt in Neue Heidelb. Jahrbb.for ’97, pp. 117 ff.
P. 59. Delehaye, S. J. Eusebius’s De Martyribus. In Anal.Boll. xvi. 2.
P. 65. Sabatier, P. Speculum perfectionis seu S. FrancisciAssisiensis legenda antiquissima auctore fratre Leone nuncprimum edidit. Paris ’98.
P. 71. Peter, Gospel and Apocalypse of : Harnack im T. und U. ix. 2 ; A Dieterich, Leip. ’93. Photographic reproduction by Gebhardt, Leip. ’93.
P. 77. Heracleon. J. Armitage Kobinson in T. and S. i. 4.
P. 84. Banks, L. A. Immortal Hymns and their Story. Cleveland ’98. See also Comper, J. A. A Popular Handbook on the Origin, History, and Structure of Liturgies. 1 vol., 2 parts. Edinburgh ’98.
P. 100. Joly, H. St. Ignace de Loyola. Paris ’99.
P. 108. Bichard, James W. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant Preceptor of Germany. N. Y. and Lond. ’98.
P. 139. Pastor, Ludwig. Zur Beurtheilung Savonarolas. Freiburg i. B. ’98.

W. N. S.
Cambridge, Mass.,
December 3, 1898.

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Tixeront. A handbook of patrology (1920)

A

HANDBOOK

OF

PATROLOGY

BY

THE REV. J. TIXERONT, D. D.

AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION,
BASED UPON THE FOURTH
FRENCH EDITION

SECOND EDITION

B. HERDER BOOK CO.
17 SOUTH BROADWAY, ST. LOUIS, MO.
AND
68, GREAT RUSSELL ST., LONDON, W. C.
1923

Christian Literature is the name given to the collection of writings composed by Christian writers upon Christian subjects. This excludes both the works of Christian authors upon profane subjects (there are many such in our days on positive science or history) and the works of non-Christians upon Christian subjects, v.g., the True Discourse of Celsus.
Ancient Christian Literature is that of the early centuries of Christianity or of Christian antiquity. Authors generally fix the limit at the death of St. John of Damascus (c. 749) for the Greek Church, and at the death of St. Gregory the Great (604) or, better, of St. Isidore of Seville (636) for the Latin Church. This was the time when new elements, borrowed from the barbarians, began considerably to modify the purity of the Latin genius.
Ancient Christian Literature, thus defined, comprises the New Testament, writings composed by Christians and es sentially Christian in character, and the works of such heretics as may still be called Christians. It has been viewed in this light and dealt with in this way by Harnack in his History of Ancient Christian Literature up to the Time of Euscbius and by Msgr. Batiffol in his Greek Literature.
Other writers until recently the majority among Catholics have excluded from their histories of Christian literature not only the books of the New Testament, which are the object of an independent study, but also the writings of notorious heretics condemned by the Church.
There seems thus to be a tendency to reduce the history of Ancient Christian literature to a history of the writings of the Fathers of the Church (Patrology).
The title Father of the Church, which has its origin in the name of ‘Father’ given to bishops as early as the second century, was commonly used in the fifth century to designate the old ecclesiastical writers ordinarily bishops who died in the faith and in communion with the Church. According to modern theologians, the title applies only to those writers who have the four following qualifications : orthodoxy of doctrine, holiness of life, ecclesiastical sanction, and antiquity. Practically, however, it is given to many others who do not possess the first three requisites. Nobody, indeed, would dream of eliminating from the list of the ‘Fathers’ such men as Tertullian, Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea, Faustus of Riez, etc. Errors have been laid to their charge, but these mar their works without making them more dangerous than useful; whilst they are wrong on a few points, there is in them much that is good. At all events, they eminently deserve the title of Ecclesiastical Writers.

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