Comments on: Early Church Theology Month

By: Kyle Strobel

Kyle Strobel — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:13:29 +0000

Matthew, I’ve really liked the Routledge series as well. I’ll have to check out the one on Nazianzus.

By: Kyle Strobel

Kyle Strobel — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:11:45 +0000

Darren, I’ve read Youngs book recently and I just finished Weinandys. They were both really good.’I'll have to poke around in hansons book.

By: brettongarcia

brettongarcia — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:27:35 +0000

“Fracture” by (Roy?) Harrisville, 2006.

By: Ryan Mahoney

Ryan Mahoney — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:14:34 +0000

Mark Noll’s “The Civil War as a Theological Crisis” Short and well worth the read.

By: Matthew Crawford

Matthew Crawford — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:02:34 +0000

Ayres’ new volume is good. I have it and am working through it now. Robert Wilken’s The Spirit of Early Christian Thought is also an excellent read. For primary readings, the volumes in the Routledge Early Church Fathers series all have nice selections from primary sources. For example, Brian Daley’s volume in that series on Gregory Nazianzus has a nice translation of some previously untranslated orations, besides the ones included in On God and Christ.

By: Matthew Crawford

Matthew Crawford — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:57:39 +0000

Robert Grant has translated an abridged version in his volume on Irenaeus in the Routledge series. I’m sure the translation would be better than the old ANF edition. You can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Irenaeus-Lyons-Early-Church-Fathers/dp/0415118387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293800126&sr=8-1

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:38:59 +0000

Kyle – Good list! If you want more secondary stuff I recommend the new second edition of Frances Young’s “From Nicaea to Chalcedon.” I’d also echo the vote for Hanson’s book.

Anatolios’ book on Athanasius is probably the best out there (and offers a rather different take to Hanson). Weinandy’s is also worth looking at.

By: MikeK

MikeK — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:26:00 +0000

Matt,
Thank you for leaving this link to this one volume version! I’ve struggled to read the CCEL version for a few years now, and library versions of Schaff did not help either! I wish I knew of a library that had this version.

To be sure, this is text that everyone picks through. But, having it in one volume might make that easier! Thanks again!

Mike

By: Brandon Jones

Brandon Jones — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:24:44 +0000

A few secondary sources I have found helpful for the fourth-century are R.P.C. Hanson’s “The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God” and Christiopher Stead “Philosophy in Christian Antiquity.” An interesting book on Augustine that came out recently is Papanikolaou and Demacopoulos, eds. “Orthodox Readings of Augustine.”

Those Fortress series books are great translations and good reads. I wish I could make some time for more reading these days.

By: Kyle Strobel

Kyle Strobel — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:38:09 +0000

Roy, thanks for the tip, I have never heard of Greer’s book before.