In the early 20th Century SPCK published a very useful series of translations of many of the writings of the early and medieval church – the Translations of Christian Literature. Many of these are now in the public domain and are now available for free download. Visit this page to see all the books in…
From around 1917 to 1927 the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) published a series of translations of early documents that provided valiable background material to the New Testament and Early Church. The object of the Series was to provide short, cheap, and handy text-books for students, either working by themselves or in…
Today’s free book is a collection of essays by J. Rendel Harris on Hermas’ Shepherd, the Gospel of John and Euthalius & Eusebius. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College Library. In the following pages I have reprinted two essays which throw some light on critical problems connected with…
Today’s free book is an English translation of Gospel’s Diatessaron, dating from the later half of the Second Century, which is the earliest harmony of the four Gospels. The original Syriac version is lost, so the text we now have has been reconstructed from translations and commentaries. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a…
Today’s free book is James Heron’s study of the teachings and practices of the sub-apostolic church as described in the Didache. It includes sections on the New Testament canon, baptism, family and social life, the eucharist and ministry. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available digitisation. James…
In this book C.J. Cadoux traces the development of Christian attitudes to the Roman Empire, heathen religions, war, family-life, poverty and slavery during the first four centuries of the Church. This public domain volume was digitised from a copy held in Spurgeon’s College Library. Cecil John Cadoux [1883–1947], The Early Church and the World. A…
