The early Church Orders were systematic manuals of disciplinary and liturgical rules for which the collective authority of the whole apostolate was claimed. They made their appearance in the second century,...

"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...

The early Church Orders were systematic manuals of disciplinary and liturgical rules for which the collective authority of the whole apostolate was claimed. They made their appearance in the second century,...

The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena , or "Philosophizings,"...

1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies . 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus...

The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena , or "Philosophizings,"...

The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena , or “Philosophizings,”...

The early Church Orders were systematic manuals of disciplinary and liturgical rules for which the collective authority of the whole apostolate was claimed. They made their appearance in the second century,...

1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies . 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus...

Antipope Hippolytus' work, Philosophumena; or, The Refutation of All Heresies, Volume II, is a significant piece of early Christian literature that provides a detailed account and critique of various...

Hippolytus of Rome was not a Roman, but a father of the Church of Greek origin that sojourned there long enough to associate his name to the western capital of Christendom. He lived between 170 and 236...

Der bekannte Kirchenvater und Märtyrer Hippolytus von Rom verfaßte für seinen Freund Theophilus ein Buch über die Zeichen der Ankunft des Antichrist, seine Taten, des Endes der Welt und der Wiederkunft...

The Refutation of All Heresies, also called the Elenchus or Philosophumena, is a compendious Christian polemical work of the early third century, attributed to Hippolytus of. It catalogues both pagan...

Hippolytus schrieb "De Christo et Antichristo" für seine Glaubensbrüder und Schüler, um ihnen Mut zu machen und sie vorzubereiten auf das erwartete Kommen des Antichrists, den er dem wahren Christus vergleichend...

This anthology edited by Philip Schaff, a renowned ecclesiastic historian, includes the most important works by early Christian theologians. Their comportment and sacrifice, their lectures and preaching,...