The works of the church historian H B Workman entered the public domain this year. Perhaps his most famous work (and most useful to students) is Christian Persecution in the Early Church. This title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.
Main image: The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1863–1883, Walters Art Museum). A fanciful scene of damnatio ad bestias in ancient Rome’s Circus Maximus beneath the Palatine Hill. Source: Wikipedia.
In the early 20th Century SPCK published a very useful series of translations of many…
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Today's free book is a recently out-of-copyright translation of the letters of Augustine of Hippo.…
Today's free book is a series of seven studies by Henry Gwatkin on Arianism. This…
Today's free book is Henry Gwatkin's History of the Church up to the time of…
Ireneaus was a Second Century Bishop of Lugdunum in what is today southern France. He…