"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. Contents: Preface Prolegomena- Sketch of the Life and Works of Saint Basil I. Life II. Works. The Book of Saint Basil on the Spirit. Introduction to the Hexaemeron. The Hexaemeron Letters (more than 300)

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. Contents: Patriarch and Patriarchate I.-The Testament of Reuben Concerning Thoughts II.-The Testament of Simeon Concerning Envy. III.-The Testament of Levi Concerning the Priesthood and Arrogance. IV.-The Testament of Judah Concerning Fortitude, and Love of Money, and Fornication. V.-The Testament of Issachar Concerning Simpl...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This volume contains the following writings: The "Miscellanies" (Stromateis) and "The Tutor" (Paidagogos). The "Miscellanies" comprise seven entire books, of which the first four are earlier than "The Tutor". When he had finished this latter work he returned to...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This volume contains the most known writings of Irenaeus, "On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis", today also called "On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called", commonly called "Against Heresies", as well as fragments from ...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. Contents: The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians Chapter I.-The Salutation. Praise of the Corinthians Before the Breaking Forth of Schism Among Them. Chapter II.-Praise of the Corinthians Continued. Chapter III.-The Sad State of the Corinthian Church After Sedition Arose in It from Envy and Emulation. Chapter IV.-Man...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. More than one of the earliest ecclesiastical writers have given credence, though apparently without good reason, to the legend that Ignatius was the child whom the Savior took up in His arms, as described in Mark 9:35. It is also believed, and with great probab...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. Cyril of Jerusalem was a distinguished theologian of the early Church (ca. 313 - 386). He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In 1883, Cyril was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope L...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. Contents: Introductory Note The Epistle of Barnabas Chapter I.-After the Salutation, the Writer Declares that He Would Communicate to His Brethren Something of that Which He Had Himself Received. Chapter II.-The Jewish Sacrifices are Now Abolished. Chapter III.-The Fasts of the Jews are Not True Fasts, Nor Acceptable to God. ...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. "Concerning the Orthodox Faith", the third book of the "Fountain of Wisdom", is the most important of John Damascene's writings and one of the most notable works of Christian antiquity. Its authority has always been great among the theologians of the East and West. Here, again, the author modestly disavows any claim of origin...

This edition contains the following writings: Contents: On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants On the Spirit and the Letter On Nature and Grace, Against Pelagius Concerning Man's Perfection in Righteousness On the Proceedings of Pelagius, A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin On Marriage and Concupiscence. On the Soul and Its Origin A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians A Treatise on Grace and Free Will. Treatise on Rebuke and Grace ...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. The "Ad Autolychum", the only extant writing of Theophilus, is an apology for Christianity. It consists of three books, really separate works written at different times, and corresponds exactly to the description given of it by Eusebius as "three elementary wor...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. The book consists of five visions, twelve mandates, or commandments, and ten similitudes, or parables. The whole book is thus concerned with the Christian virtues and their exercise. It is an ethical, not a theological, work. The intention is above all to preac...