Full text of C. H. Dodd's
1964 collected essays on the evolution of the primitive Christian kerygma
& the historical analysis of Christian scripture (posted by
Religion-Online).
On-line version of William Barry's
Catholic
Encyclopedia article on the 4th c.
doctrinal controversy.
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Augustine
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James J. O'Donnell provides an introduction to
the life
& works of the north African bishop & an
archive of key texts (many in the original Latin as well as English
translation) along with scholarly introductions & commentaries. Works
include the
Confessions,
On
Christian Doctrine,
On
Dialectic, & the
Sermon
on the Mount, as well as an e-edition
of O'Donnell's own 1992 Commentary
on the Confessions.
Italian commercial site provides
images & historical commentary on the several tomb complexes in which
early Christians found refuge.
Project hosted by Calvin College will put all
38 volumes of the Ante-Nicene,
Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers
on-line. English translations of all orthodox Christian theologians from
Clement of Rome through 800 CE.
Full text of the fifth
(1897) edition of William M. Ramsay's study of primitive Christianity
[Internet Text Archive].
Electronic version of J. J. O'Donnell's 1992
Oxford U. Press critical edition has complete Latin text with commentary
(posted by the Stoa Consortium).
Chronological portal to the study of Christian
literature from 30-250 CE. Citations from major critical scholars with links
to texts, online
books & related resources for each work make Peter Kirby's site an
excellent place to start research on any Christian writing from the gospel's
passion narrative through Origen.
Michael Fraser provides Latin & English
versions of the diary of a western pilgrim that documents the annual cycle of
Christian liturgical celebrations in the churches of Constantine.
The Wesley Center of NW Nazarene U's
non-canonical homepage accesses complete works of apostolic fathers (Didache,
Clement of Rome, Barnabas, Mathetas, Polycarp & Ignatius) & Justin
Martyr. Selected works of Irenaeus, Tertullian, Athanasius, Basil, Jerome,
Chrysostom, Augustine & Theodore of Studium. Links to most other sites of
texts relevant to early Christianity.
Another e- edition of the preceding works published by
New Advent Catholic Website.
PBS Frontline surveys leading scholars' views
of the social development of the early Jesus movement.
John Brubaker & Gary Bogart maintain an
up-to-date annotated index of hypertext editions of Christian theological
sources from the NT thru the 2nd Council of Constantinople (533 CE) & a
few later works.
Phil Johnson's archive of Christian theology
includes a catalog of creeds
& catechisms (from the NT to
Chalcedon & beyond) & writings
of theologians from the apostolic
fathers to Augustine.
Site devoted to study of Marcion of Sinope, the
2nd c. dualistic reformer whose radical interpretation of Paul polarized
churches from Asia Minor to Rome & sparked the development of the NT.
On-line library
includes important assessments by modern scholars & ancient polemicists as
well as reconstructions of
Marcion's
gospel,
letters
of Paul & theological
antitheses.
Peter Kirby's gateway to electronic
resources on the most influential 3rd c. Greek theologian including the first
Christian systematic theology (De
Principiis) & his refutation of the characterization of
Christianity by a 2nd c. pagan philosopher (Contra
Celsum).
On-line ET of Walter Bauer's
seminal 1934 thesis that heterodoxy preceded orthodoxy in the first three
centuries of the church. Appendix on Jewish Christianity by Georg Strecker.
PBS Frontline surveys leading scholars' views
of the factors that transformed a persecuted Jewish sect into the religion of
the Roman empire.
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