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Old 05-03-2004, 11:53 AM   #1
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Essential works of Church history
Can you guys give me some short lists of the essential works of the early church fathers and those in the medieval/scholastic times. Thanks.

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Old 05-03-2004, 12:04 PM   #2
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Just read The Trail of Blood and you'll get all the church history you could ever need.
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I have heard terrible things about that book, if it's the one I am thinking about.
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It would be a hard task indeed to select some writtings as the essential. The subject matters differ so greatly. If you wanted a list of essentials that deal with the Trinity or something that is a little more practicable, but the scope is just too big.

For the first 200 years though, my list would be:
1) Pope St. Clement's letter to the Corinthians
2) St. Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Smyrneans and also the one to the Romans
3) St. Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies
4) St. Justin Martyr's three apologies, to the emperor, the Roman senate, and Trypho the Jew.

That is the majority of what was written by the Fathers in that time period though.
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I have heard terrible things about that book, if it's the one I am thinking about.
All lies! Go Baptist successionism! Hurrah for revisionist history!
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It would be a hard task indeed to select some writtings as the essential. The subject matters differ so greatly. If you wanted a list of essentials that deal with the Trinity or something that is a little more practicable, but the scope is just too big.

For the first 200 years though, my list would be:
1) Pope St. Clement's letter to the Corinthians
2) St. Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Smyrneans and also the one to the Romans
3) St. Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies
4) St. Justin Martyr's three apologies, to the emperor, the Roman senate, and Trypho the Jew.

That is the majority of what was written by the Fathers in that time period though.
Maybe I'll just randomly select stuff out of Schaff's collection in The Early Church Fathers. Its only 38 volumes......
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Donny...good plan, but I'll back up Katholish and state that the ones he recommended are really required reading.

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Alright, I'll read those first then.
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The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Just because a monk wrote it doesn't mean it's true though... It's just their persective or spin on a topic
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Also, St. Augustine's anti-Pelagian writings are awesome. Also a big reason why I'm Reformed today. Yay for St. Augustine's persuasion even though he's been dead for 1500-odd years!
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