The Complete Church Fathers Collection (Trial)

The Church Fathers were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers. Although there is no definitive list, the era of these scholars who set the theological and scholarly foundations of Christianity largely ended by AD 700 (John of Damascus died in 749 AD).

This is the complete set of their writings compiled under the editorial supervision of Philip Schaff.

There are almost 60 authors, and over 2,500 works included in this collection. Also included are introductions to most of the authors. These provide a background to their life and how their works came to be accepted and preserved by the wider Christian world.

The following authors are included:

Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander of Lycopolis
Ambrose
Aphrahat
Archelaus
Aristides the Philosopher
Arnobius
Athanasius
Athenagoras
Augustine of Hippo
Bardesanes
Barnabas
Basil the Great
Caius
Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Rome
Commodianus
Cyprian of Carthage
Cyril of Jerusalem
Dionysius of Rome
Dionysius the Great
Ephraim the Syrian
Eusebius of Caesarea
Gennadius of Marseilles
Gregory the Great, Pope
Gregory Nazianzen
Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory Thaumaturgus
Hermas
Hilary of Poitiers
Hippolytus
Ignatius of Antioch
Irenaeus of Lyons
Jerome
John of Damascus
John Cassian
John Chrysostom
Julius Africanus
Justin Martyr
Lactantius
Leo the Great, Pope
Malchion
Mar Jacob
Mathetes
Methodius
Minucius Felix
Moses of Chorene
Novatian
Origen
Pamphilus
Papias
Peter of Alexandria
Polycarp
Rufinus
Socrates Scholasticus
Sozomen
Sulpitius Severus
Tatian
Tertullian
Theodoret
Theodotus
Theophilus
Venantius
Victorinus
Vincent of Lérins

Also included are the early liturgies, councils and the apocryphal works.

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