Church Fathers Source Documents

Alexander of Alexandria

• Depostion of Arius
• Other Treatises

Arius

• Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia

Athansasius

• Defenence of the Nicene Creed
• Discourse Against the Arians I, II
• Incarnation of the Word

Athenagoras

• Plea for the Christians

Augustine

• Confessions Books I, II
• On the Spirit and the Letter

Barnabas

• Epistle to Barnabas

Basil

• On the Holy Spirit

Clement of Rome

• First Clement

Councils

• Nicene Creed and Canons
• Constantinople
• Ephesus
• Chalcedon Pope Leo's Tome , Canons
• Orange

Creeds

• Apostles
• Athansian
• Nicea

Cyprian

• Epistles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76
• On the Dress of Virgins
• On The Lapsed
• On the Unity of the Catholic Church
• Other Treatises

Cyril

• Lecture XX (On the Mysteries II Of Baptism), XXIII (On the Mysteries V On the Sacred Literugy and Commnion)

Didache

• Lords Teaching through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations

Diognetus

• Epistle to Diognetus

Dionysius of Rome

• Against the Sabellians

Eusebius of Caesarea

• Ecclesiastical History I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Gregory of Nazianzus

• Orations XXVII (First Theological Oration), XXVIII (Second Theological Oration), XXIX (Third Theological Oration), XXXI (Fourth Theological Oration), XXXII (Fifth Theological Oration)

Gregory of Nyssa

• Not Three Gods (to Ablabius)

Hippolytus

• Refutation of All Heresies I, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Ignatius

• Epsitle to the Ephesians
• Epistle to the Magnesians
• Epistle to the Romans
• Epistle to the Smyrnaeans

Irenaeus

• Against Heresies Book I, II, III, IV, V
• Proof of the Apostolic Preaching

Justin Martyr

• Dialog with Trypho
• First Apology
• Second Apology

Origen

• Against Celsus I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII
• First Principles Preface, I, II, III, IV

Shepherd of Hermas

• Shepherd of Hermas

Tertullian

• An Answer to the Jews
• Perscription Against Heretics
• Treatise on the Soul

Theophilus of Antioch

• To Autolychus I, II, III

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