The following Public Domain articles from the Journal of Theological Studies relating to early church history are now available on-line in PDF:
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…
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…
Andrew Ewbank Burns 1899 Introduction to the Creeds appears to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Originally prepared as course book for students at Cambridge University, the author hoped that his work would also be useful to a wider readership. Andrew Ewbank Burn [1864-1927], An Introduction to the Creeds and to the Te Deum….
Today’s free book is a collection of primary sources from the early church – eight canons of Church Councils in both patristic Greek and in Latin. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain work available for digitisation. William Lambert [1536-1601], Codex Canonum Ecclesæ Universæ. The Canons of the First…
Today’s free download is a substantial work on the church father Cyprian of Cathage by former Archbishiop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson. My thanks to Book Aid for making this public domain book available for digitisation. Edward White Benson [1829-1896], Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897. Hbk. pp.636….
I recent conducted a poll on the Facebook Group Theology on the Web asking members to vote to the most useful book on church history from a list of possible titles I had available to scan. The winner was a work by Alfred Plummer (1841-1926), which was regarded as one of that author’s most important…
