Comments on: A Patristic Book Club!

By: Nathan Cho

Nathan Cho — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:29:53 +0000

Oh and I forgot Penguin Classics also has _The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks_ translated by the great Benedicta Ward.

By: Nathan Cho

Nathan Cho — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:25:33 +0000

Mike,

I love your list. In terms of the Peguin Classics, they have a relatively recent addition to the Early Christian theme……Caroline White, ed. and trans., Lives of Roman Christian Women (2010). It contains many good text such as the Life of Macrina by Gregory of Nyssa and much more.

By: Nick Morgan

Nick Morgan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:05:15 +0000

I also wanted to recommend “Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers” and “Learning Theology with the Church Fathers” by Christopher Hall. Published by Intervarsity Press. Though written by a Protestant, they are excellent introductory works into how the Fathers read scripture and worked out Doctrinal questions.

By: Hypatia

Hypatia — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:54:19 +0000

I like Loeb’s 2003 2-volume translation by Bart Ehrman – it has the added bonus of a facing Greek text for those who want to go further. I am also rather fond of F.W.Farrar’s 1889 volumes ‘Lives of the Fathers’, very Victorian, but eminently readable

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:20 +0000

The St. Vladimir's books are excellent -- a great one to start with is St. Athanasius: On the Incarnation. The St. Vlad's edition is a reprint of a superb translation from the 1950's, I believe. The introduction by C.S. Lewis is priceless.

By: Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:25:04 +0000

I love the Ramsey book. Delivered as a series of conferences for monks, it’s by turns lyrical and curmudgeonly.

By: Macrina

Macrina — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:04:11 +0000

Boniface Ramsey's Beginning to Read the Fathers has an appendix containing suggestions for a Patristics reading programme that I've found quite helpful. He also provides information about available translations.

By: Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:12:20 +0000

I like St. Vlad’s books, and they are affordable (though delivery can take an inexplicably long time). I think the Penguin selections, though, enable a more basic and programmatic introduction to the Fathers. And, for an introductory course, I think history and biography (stories) work better than dogmatic treatises, which dominate the PP series.

By: D. P.

D. P. — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:08:40 +0000

I second the comment about St. Vladimir’s volumes–very well done and no major strain on the checkbook.

By: blackhaw

blackhaw — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:49:50 +0000

St. Vladimir’s puts out very affordable translations of primary texts under their popular patristic series. They could be used.

CARL