The following Public Domain articles from the Journal of Theological Studies relating to early church history are now available on-line in PDF:
I have just uploaded the following article in PDF format: D. Gregory Dix, “The Use and Abuse of Papias on the Fourth Gospel,” Theology 24 (1932): 8-20. The work is out of copyright and can be freely copied.
Dean F.W. Farrar provides us with over 1,500 pages on the lives of individual church fathers. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this two volume set available for digitisation. Frederic William Farrar [1831-1903], Lives of the Fathers. Sketches of Church History in Biography, 2 Vols. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907….
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…
Today’s free book is A.R. Whitham’s survey of the history of the church until the time fo Great Schism in 1054. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. Arthur Richard Whitham [1863-1930], The History of the Christian Church to the Separation of East and West,…
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…
The following public domain book is now available on-line in PDF: H.N. Bate, History Of The Church to A.D. 325, 2nd edn. London: Rivingtons, 1924. Hbk. pp.140. I remember finding this book extremely helpful when I was studying church history and so was pleased to find that the copyright has expired. It can now be…
