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Resources on the Early Church Fathers

This Rock Volume 17, Number 8   September 2006     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   Making Peace with the Mediatrix By Mary Beth Kremski   To Thee Do I Come By Jane Cavolina   Nietzsche and the Nietzscheans: Shaping the Culture of Death By Donald DeMarco   What's Wrong with a Little Indulgence? By Jimmy Akin   How to Get an Indulgence   Reading the Early Church Fathers: Part II By Marcellino D'Ambrosio   Resources on the Early Church Fathers   The Greatest Story Never Told: Modern Christian Martyrdom By Susan Brinkmann   Missionaries Killed in 2005   Damascus Road Preaching from the Choir By Joanna Bogle   By the Book A Confession to Make By Tim Staples   Truth Be Told How Abortion Became Illegal By Robert P. Lockwood   Up a Notch Abortion and Double Effect By Matthew Newsome   Classic Apologetics The Meaning, Object, and Need of Apologetics By Rev. F. J. Koch   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

1. Audio-video: Audio and video recordings of Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s "Early Church Fathers" series are available at www.crossroadsinitiative.com.

2. Print: Mike Aquilina’s book The Fathers of the Church is a good primer for reading the Fathers. In addition, there are several multi-volume collections of the writings of the Fathers, notably the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers series, Catholic University’s Fathers of the Church series, and the Ancient Christian Writers series from Newman Press. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press has also published many patristic classics, and William Jurgens’s Faith of the Early Fathers series is available at www.catholic.com.

3. Web: Many sites exist with extensive patristic libraries, notably www.ewtn.com and www.newadvent.org. Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s site, www.crossroadsinitiative.com, contains articles on the Fathers, excerpts and full works by the Fathers, chronologies of the early Church, and short biographies on the most prominent Fathers.