The First and Second Apologies
10 best books like The First and Second Apologies (Justin Martyr): Confessions, On the Incarnation, The Rule of Saint Benedict, Euthyphro, On Christian Doctrine, On God and Christ, The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius: St. Gregory of Nazianzus, The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations, On the Apostolic Preaching, The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine, The Didache
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0192833723 |
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
| Author | Athanasius of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 0913836400 |
I was pleased to find On the Incarnation remarkably fresh and engaging, still fierce and still passionate too. Such is rarely the case with works of theology, particularly when orthodoxy has robbed them even of the novelty of heresy, for dry-as-dust disquisitions on settled questions often summon...
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are not only prerequisites for formal religious societies, they also...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 1853991325 |
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual, the man who professes to know nothing fares better...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0024021504 |
The words in his title have gotten an offputting reputation in other contexts, and that's a shame. Doctrine is guidance in love. Augustine himself, probably from somebody's frightening childhood experience with City of God, would tend to offer an intimidating nameplate.
Try anyway. He...
| Author | Gregory of Nazianzus |
| ISBN | 0881412406 |
Gregory of Nazianzus, "The Theologian," was recognized among the Cappadocian Fathers as a peculiarly vivid and quotable exponent of the doctrine of God in Trinity. A brilliant orator and accomplished poet, he placed before the Church his interpretation of the sublime mystery of the God revealed...
Following the publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., Michael Holmes, a leading expert on these texts, offers a thoroughly revised and redesigned bilingual edition, featuring Greek (or Latin) and English on facing pages. Introductions and bibliographies...
| Author | Irenaeus of Lyons |
| ISBN | 0881411744 |
St. Irenaeus, undisputedly the most important theologian of the second century, laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in his work, Against the Heresies and in this present study, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, St. Irenaeus explains that there is but one God,...
| Author | Eusebius |
| ISBN | 0140445358 |
Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years.
Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians....
Like Clement’s epistle to the church at Corinth, The Didache is something everyone even slightly interested in Christian history ought to read. It takes only 20-30 minutes, though it’s not a bad idea to get a book with multiple translations and go through it a few times. It’s very likely this catechism-like...
