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G.L. Prestige’s lecture is (in my opinion) one of the best short summaries of the life, works and significance of Origen. It should be required reading for anyone taking a course in early church history.
Today’s free book is Robert Rainy’s comprehensive survey of early church history from the time of the Emperor Trajan to Fourth General Council (98-451 AD). My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of public domain title available for digitisation. Robert Rainy [1826-1906], The Ancient Catholic Church from the Accession of Trajan to the…
The following Public Domain book is now available for download as a PDF: J.J. Blunt, On The Right Use of the Fathers, 3rd Edition. London: John Murray, 1869. Hbk. pp.542. Click here to download the book.
In his foreword H.B. Swete notes that he wrote this book to encourage younger clergy to read the church fathers for themselves and not to rely on second hand information. This brief introduction will be still of value to students of the early church more than a century after it was first published. This title…
Today’s free book is Fredrick Watson’s study of the Christian Apologists of the Second and Third Centuries, which includes Justin Martyr, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, Minucius Felix, Tertullian and Origen. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library. Frederick Watson [1844-1906], The Defenders of the Faith; or, the…
Today’s free book is a series of six lectures on significant ante-nicene fathers by F.J.A. Hort- see the table of contents for the full list. My thanks to Book Aid for making this public domain titles available for digitisation. Fenton John Anthony Hort [1828–1892], Six Lectures on the Ante-Nicene Fathers. London & New York: MacMillan…
This book is a collection of lectures that cover 13 significant Christian leaders from the first five centuries of the Church. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. William Lefroy [1836-1909], ed., Church Leaders in Primitive Times. Lectures on Their Words and Works. Delivered in Norwich…
