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Ambrose letter to Emperor Theodosius I after the massacre at Thessalonica - Latin text with English translation
Apollinaris and his Christology (also spelt Apollinarius) - Greek fragments with English translation
Arius and the start of Controversy - Greek text with English translation
Arius letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia - Greek text with English translation
Athanasius on the atonement - Greek text with English translation
Athanasius 39th Festal Letter - Greek text with English translation (in which he cites the 27 books of the New Testament)
Augustine on the episcopate - Latin text with English translation
Augustine on Free Will - Latin with English translation
Augustine on Philosophy and Theology / Christianity and Pagan learning from De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine), 40 (60, 61)
Augustine on The Relation of the Old and the New Testaments from De Utilitate Credendi 9.3. - Latin text with English translation
Augustine on the Trinity - Latin with English translation
Basil on ousia and hypostasis - Greek text with English translation
Canons of the Council of Ephesus - 431 - Greek text with English translation and Latin version. Greek from Bright's Canons.
Canons of the Council of Nicaea - 325 - Greek text with English translation and Latin versions
Creed of Nicaea - Greek text as agreed at the Council of 325 with English translation
Chalcedonian Definition - Greek text with English translation
Clement of Alexandria on Philosophy and Christianity - Greek text with English translation
Clement of Rome on Christian Ministry - Greek text with English translation - Chapters 40-42 and 44 of 1 Clement
Cyprian Letter to Pompey about Stephen's views on the baptism of "heretics" - Epistle 73 or 74, LXXIII or LXXIV - Latin text with English translation
Cyprian Letter to Quintus about the baptism of "heretics" - Epistle 70 or 71, LXX or LXXI - Latin text with English translation
Cyprian on the Unity of the Church - De Unitate Ecclesiae - Latin text with English translation
Cyril of Alexandria Twelve Anathemas - Greek text with English translation
Cyril of Jerusalem on the significance of baptism from Mystagogica Catechesis, 1. 1-3, Catechetical Lecture 19 XIX.
Cyril of Jerusalem on the Catholic Church from Catechetical Lecture, 18. 23 & 26
The Didache - Greek text with English translation - with a focus on baptismal and eucharistic practice.
Diognetus, Epistle to - Greek text with English translation - also known as letter of Mathetes to Diognetus, Epistle to Diognetus
Eusebius of Caesarea on the Canon of the New Testament, from Historia Ecclesiastica 3.25. Greek text with English translation
Eusebius of Caesarea Life of Constantine, Vita Constantini - Greek text with English translation - In this sign Conquer
Eusebius of Caesarea - Montanism - the Origins of, from Historia Ecclesiastica, 5.16. Greek Text.
Eusebius of Caesarea - Persecution under Nero and martyrdom of Peter and Paul, from Historia Ecclesiastica, Greek text.
Gregory of Nazianzus on the Deity of the Holy Spirit - Greek text with English translation
Gregory of Nazianzus - critique of Apollinarianism - Greek text with English translation
Gregory of Nyssa on the self-emptying of the Godhead - Greek text with English translation
Hadrian Rescript to Caius - Latin Text with English translation
Hilary of Poitiers on The Trinity - From De Trinitate, book 12. 52 and 57
Hippolytus writing about Callistus - Greek text with English translation
Hippolytus on Montanist Prophets from Refutation of All Heresies, 8. 19 - Greek text with English translation
Ignatius Letter to the Magnesians - about Christianity and Judaism - Greek text with English translation (also whole letter)
Ignatius Letter to the Romans - chapter 5 about Martyrdom - Greek text with English translation (also link to Greek text and translation of whole letter).
Ignatius letter to the Smyrnaeans - Greek text with English translation (also complete letter)
Ignatius letter to the Trallians - with a particular focus on Docetism. Greek text with English translation (also complete letter)
Irenaeus on Basilides (Gnostic) - Latin text with English translation
Irenaeus about Ebionites - Latin text with English translation
Irenaeus on Marcion - Latin and Greek text with English translation
Irenaeus on Recapitulation in Christ - Latin text with English translation
Irenaeus on the "Rule of Faith" - Greek and Latin text with English translation. The faith of the Church the same throughout the world
Irenaeus on Tradition from Adversus Haereses - Latin and Greek text with English translation. Apostolic tradition and Apostolic Succession
James, Protoevangelium of - Greek text with English translation (also called Infancy Gospel of James, Protevangelium Jacobi
Jerome Contra Joannem Hierosolymitanum, 7 (negative towards Origen) - Latin text with English translation
Jerome Fragment of Letter 33 to Paula (positive towards Origen) - Latin text with English translation
Jerome preface to the Four Gospels - Letter to Pope Damasus - Latin text with English translation
John Chrysostom on Free Will and Grace - Greek text with English translation
Justin Martyr on Baptism from Apology, 1. 61. - Greek text with English translation
Justin Martyr on the possibility of there being Christians before Christ - Greek text with English translation
Justin Martyr on the celebration of the Eucharist and the pattern of Sunday of Worship from Apology 1. 65 - 67. - Greek text with English translation
Lactantius Liber de Mortibus Persecutorum, XLVIII. The Edict of Milan granting freedom of worship to Christians, plus the translation into Greek of Eusebius from Historia Ecclesiastica. 10. 5.
Leo - The Tome of Leo - Latin and Greek texts with English translation. Epistola XXVIII. Ad Flavianum Episcopum Constantinopolitanum Contra Eutychis Perfidiam Et Haeresim.
Muratorian Canon original Latin text with translation, both as found in Migne PL and in Gwatkin Selections from Early Christian Writers.
Nicene Creed - Greek text with English translation (and Latin versions)
Old Roman Creed - Greek and Latin texts with English translations (forerunner of Apostles' Creed) - with links also to relevant texts from Marcellus of Ancyra, Rufinus, Pseudo-Augustine and Abbas Pirminius.
Optatus on the origins of the Donatist Controversy from De Schismate Donatistarum, 1.15-19. Latin text with English translation.
Origen on how to understand and interpret Scripture - Greek text with English translation
Pelagius on Free Will - Latin text with English translation
Pliny letter to Trajan about Christians - Latin text with English translation
Martyrdom of Polycarp - De Martyrio Sancti Polycarpi - Latin text with English translation
Socrates on Arius and the start of controversy - Greek text with English translation
Socrates on John Chrysostom and the Statue of Eudoxia - Greek text with English translation
Socrates and the Letter of the Council of Nicaea to the Egyptian Church - Greek text with English translation
Tertullian passage from Apologeticus pro Christianis (Apology), 29 - 32 - about Christians and loyalty to the Emperor - Greek text with English translation.
Tertullian on the Incarnation from Apologeticus pro Christianis (Apology), 21: 10-14
Tertullian on Marcion - Latin text with English translation
Tertullian on Philosophy and Christianity - Latin text with English translation
Tertullian on the Trinity (Adversus Praxeam chapters 2 & 3) - Latin text with English translation
Theodoret letter on the death of Cyril of Alexandria - Latin text with English translation
Trajan reply to Pliny about Christians - Latin text with English translation
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