This book combines a careful study of the subject matter and the literary form of each of the historical books of the Old Testament and at the same time explains why this literature should be of great interest to Christian and Jewish ...
Composed c. 233, the treatise on Prayer is not merely a treatise, but a prayer itself.
Written in the first part of the fifth century, this work is a charming record of the observations of a Christian woman on a lengthy pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.
In this massive volume, patristics scholar Thomas P. Scheck offers a worthy sequel to his magisterial St. Jerome's Commentary on Isaiah (ACW 68) with the first translation into a modern language of St. Jerome's Commentary on Ezekiel, his ...
St. Gregory deals with the great responsibility of the episcopal office and its onerous nature. +
St. Gregory deals with the great responsibility of the episcopal office and its onerous nature. +
A thorough and conscientious commentary on the first three chapters from the Book of Genesis, completed in 415.
An English translation from Greek of Justin Martyr's two major apologetic works, which are recognized as a formative influence on the development of Christian theology in the early church. +
No other source gives such an intimate portrait of this brilliant and strong minded individual, one of the four great doctors of the West and generally regarded as the most learned of the Latin fathers. +
The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder and father of monasticism. +