Early Fathers

Tertullian. De praescriptione haereticorum. Texte latin, traduction française [Labriolle]. 1907.

Francisco Arriaga / September 18, 2010 / Latina, Patrologia

TEXTES ET DOCUMENTS
POUR L’ÉTUDE HISTORIQUE DU CHRISTIANISME
PUBLIÉS SOUS LA DIRECTION DE
HIPPOLYTE HEMMER ET PAUL LEJAY

TERTULLIEN

DE PRAESCRIPTIONE
HAERETICORUM
TEXTE LATIN, TRADUCTION FRANçAISE
INTRODUCTION ET INDEX
PAR
PIERRE DE LABRIOLLE
PROFESSEUR A L’UNIVERSITÉ DE FRIBOURG SUlSSE
PARIS
LIBRAIRIE ALPHONSE PICARD ET FILS
82, RUE BONAPARTE, 82
1907

Les premiers chapitres du De Praescriptione nous laissent entrevoir les circonstances qui décidèrent Tertullien à écrire cet opuscule. Le Gnosticisme sévissait. Rompus à toutes les acrobaties de la dialectique, les Gnostiques excellaient à éveiller le doute et le scrupule dans le coeur de ceux qui avaient la faiblesse ou la présomption de discuter avec eux. Un certain nombre de désertions avaient aflligé l’Église ; et, en raison de la qualité, de la science, de l’apparente vertu des renégats, beaucoup d’âmes s’en étaient senties troublées.

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

Francisco Arriaga / September 11, 2010September 11, 2010 / Church History, Handbooks/Textbooks, Patrologia

THE CHURCH

OF THE

EXTERNAL HISTORY

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.

Harnack. Diodor von Tarsus : Vier pseudojustinische Schriften als Eigentum Diodors. 1901.

Francisco Arriaga / July 16, 2010 / Graeca, Patrologia, Studia/Monographiae

DIODOR VON TARSUS

VIER PSEUDOJUSTINISCHE SCHRIFTEN

ALS

EIGENTUM DIODORS

NACHGEWIESEN

VON

ADOLF HARNACK

LEIPZIG
J. C. HINRICHS’sche BUCHHANDLUNG
1901

Inhalt.

§ 1. Die Überlieferung der Quaestiones et Responsiones ad orthodoxes 1

§ 2. Die bisher aufgestellten Ansichten über den Ursprung dieser Schrift 8

§ 3. Die Einheit und Integrität der Schrift 15

§ 4. Der Interlocutor und der Verfasser 18

§ 5. Die Abfassungszeit der Schrift 20

§ 6. Der Abfassungsort der Schrift 29

§ 7. Der Verfasser der Schrift (Diodor von Tarsus) 33

§ 8. Vergleichung der „Quaestiones” mit den sonst bekannten Fragmenten Diodors 44

§ 9. Die Quaestiones Gentilium ad Christianos und die Quaestiones Christianorum ad Gentiles (Diodor der Verfasser) 46

§ 10. Die Confutatio dogmatum Aristotelis (Diodor der Verfasser) . 52

§ 11. Die in den vier Schriften benutzten Bücher und die Bibel Diodors 54

Die Texte 67

I. Antworten an die Orthodoxen auf einige notwendige Fragen 69
II. Hellenische Fragen an die Christen über das Unkörperliche und über Gott und über die Auferstehung der Toten 161
III. [Christliche Fragen an die Hellenen samt den Antworten der Hellenen und der Duplik] 182
IV. “Widerlegung einiger aristotelischer Lehren 225

Schlussausführung (Themistius oder ein Gesinnungsgenosse desselben der Gegner Diodors) 231

Anhang: Die Expositio rectae fidei 242

Index zu den Quaestiones et Responsiones 249

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

Francisco Arriaga / June 24, 2010 / Graeca, Handbooks/Textbooks, Latina, Patrologia

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.

Francisco Arriaga / June 24, 2010 / Handbooks/Textbooks, Patrologia

THE EARLY

CHRISTIAN BOOKS

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

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

Tertullian. Opera [Ed. Leopold]. 1839.

Francisco Arriaga / June 3, 2010 / Collections/Series, Latina, Patrologia

Opera

(1839)

Author: Tertullian, ca. 160-ca. 230; Leopold, E. F. (Ernst Friedrich), 1804-1852
Volume: 1-4
Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: Latin
Call number: AFA-8739
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Book contributor: Robarts – University of Toronto
Collection: toronto

This book has an editable web page on Open Library.
Description

Vol. 1. Libri apologetici: Ad martyres; De spectaculis. De idololatria; Apologeticus; Ad nationes libri duo; De testimonio animae; De corona militis; De fuga in persecutione; Contra Gnosticos scorpiace; Ad Scapulam.

Vol. 2. Libri ad ritus et mores Christianorum pertinentes: De oratione; De patientia; De baptismo; De poenitentia; Ad uxorem lib. I.; Ad uxorem lib. II.; De cultu feminarum lib. I. (De habitu muliebri.); De cultu feminarum lib. II; De exhortatione castitatis; De monogamia; De pudicitia; De ieiuniis; De virginibus velandis; De pallio.

Vol. 3. Libri polemici et dogmatici. Pars I: De praescriptionibus haereticorum. Adversus Marcionem lib. I-V.

Vol. 4. Libri polemici et dogmatici. Pars. II: Adversus Hermogenem; Adversus Valentinianos; De carne Christi; De resurrectione carnis; De anima; Adversus Praxean; Adversus Judaeos; Notitia lit. de editionibus et interpretationibus operum Tertulliani.

Quum ante tria propemodum lustra eo consiiio , ut accuratiorem ex ipsis fontibus rerum Christianarum cognitonem haurirem , Tertulliani scripta legere coepissem, dici non potest, quam molestum mihi visum fuerit orationis plenus obscurum ac barbarismis et soloecismis refertum, quo usus est Tertullianus*). Et tamen quum mecum repuarem, quantum ille inter aequales ac postea potuerit in dicendo atque effecerit, librosque singulos relegerem, taedium quo antea affcctus eram, in tantam scriptoris admirationem conversum est, ut et ingenii ubertate et doctrinae copia plane singulari, qua ceteris excellit, mirifice captus de eo accuratius pertractando cogitarem. Sed quod de edendis Tertulliani scriptis cepi consilium , omni librorum manu scriptorum, qui perpauci in bibliothecis a patriae finibus longissime remotis asservantur, ope destitutus, et ut inceptis secundus responderet eventus magnopere veritus, iampridem abieceram, quum, ut denuo suscipcrem susceplumque strenue exsequerer , auctor mihi exstitit gravissimus, qui hac ipsa bibliotheca patrum ecclesiasticorum latinorum curanda de studiis theologorum promovendis iam optime meruit.

*) Copiosius de his a me disputatum est in dissertatione: Ueber die Ursachen der verdorbenen Latinität bei den Schriftstellern nach dem Zeitalter d. K. Augustus, hauptsächlich bei den Kirchenvätern, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Tertullian, inserta V. S. V. Illgenii Zeitschrift f. d. histor. Theol. Vol. VIII. p. 12 sqq. (Lips. 1839.)

Alès. La théologie de saint Hippolyte. 1906.

Francisco Arriaga / February 25, 2010 / Instrumenta, Studia/Monographiae

BIBLIOTHèQUE DE THÉOLOGIE HISTORIQUE

PUBLIÉE SOUS LA DIRECTION DES PROFESSEURS DE THÉOLOGIE

A L’INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE DE PARIS

LA THÉOLOGIE

DE

SAINT HIPPOLYTE

PAR

ADHÉMAR D’ALèS

PRêTRE

PARIS.
1906.

L’histoire intellectuelle de Rome chrétienne, durant les siècles voisins des origines, offre peu de noms illustres; et son docteur le plus marquant, Hippolyte, l’Origène romain, n’a laissé lui-même qu’un souvenir équivoque. D’orthodoxie suspecte, et livré de bonne heure à l’oubli, il n’en devait sortir tardivement qu’au prix d’étranges métamorphoses; si bien que, lorsqu’on entreprend de restituer sa pensée, on doit commencer par le disputer à la légende. Personnage énigmatique, presque ignoré de l’Occident, auquel pourtant il appartient, il se présente au contraire dans la tradition orientale avec une multiple auréole : docteur, évêque, martyr. De ses très nombreux écrits, on ne possédait naguère que des lambeaux. L’édition donnée au commencement du dix-huitième siècle par Fabricius pouvait passer en son temps pour une merveille : aujourd’hui, nul ne saurait s’en contenter. La Question d’Hippolyte a été entièrement renouvelée par une série de découvertes remarquables, qui s’allonge encore de nos jours. A la suite de la publication des Philosophumena, Doellinger a, le premier, avec autant de sûreté que de hardiesse, marqué l’unité historique du personnage d’Hippolyte, dans un livre qui domine tous les travaux postérieurs. Depuis lors, l’épigraphie a éclairé certains détails mystérieux de la tradition occidentale ; MM. N. Bonwetsch et H. Achelis, viennent de nous rendre le Commentaire sur Daniel et d’autres fragments précieux; M. A. Bauer, une bonne partie du texte original de la Chronique. En attendant les surprises que nous réservent peut-être encore les éditeurs de Berlin, il est possible de jeter un regard d’ensemble sur la carrière de cet homme, remarquable à plus d’un titre. Nous l’essayerons dans ces pages, où nous ne prétendons pas retracer méthodiquement tout le travail critique accompli depuis un demi-siècle autour d’Hippolyte, ni même inventorier toutes les sources de son histoire.
Nous interrogerons successivement, sur la personne et sur l’oeuvre d’Hippolyte, la tradition littéraire, puis la tradition hagiographique, enfin le livre des Philosphumena, qui mérite dans cette étude une place à part.

TERTULLIEN

THE CHURCH

OF THE

EARLY FATHERS

EXTERNAL HISTORY

SYNTAX OF THE PARTICIPLE IN

THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS

A DISSERTATION

SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE DIVINITY

SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE

OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

THE EARLY

CHRISTIAN BOOKS

PATRUM APOSTOLICORUM,

GUILIELMUS JACOBSON

Opera

(1839)

ARNOBE

SON OEUVRE

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