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Bede the Venerable · 703 · Treatise
De Temporibus stands as Bede's earliest systematic attempt to establish a Christian framework for understanding time and chronology. Written in 703 at the monastery of Jarrow, this brief treatise emerged from the…
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Bede the Venerable · 709–716 · Commentary
Written between 709 and 716, this commentary on the Acts of the Apostles represents Bede's mature engagement with Luke's account of the early church. The Venerable Bede composed this exposition during his…
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Bede the Venerable · 709–716 · Commentary
Bede the Venerable's commentary on the Gospel of Luke emerged from the flourishing scriptural scholarship of eighth-century Northumbria, where the monk of Jarrow had access to one of medieval Europe's finest libraries.…
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Bede the Venerable · 720–735 · Sermon
Bede's Homilies on the Gospels represents the mature fruit of the Venerable Bede's pastoral ministry at the monastery of Jarrow in eighth-century Northumbria. Composed between 720 and 735, these fifty sermons emerged…
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Bede the Venerable · 720–721 · Other
Bede completed his prose Life of Saint Cuthbert around 720, drawing upon an earlier anonymous Life and extensive oral traditions about the beloved bishop of Lindisfarne who had died in 687. Writing…
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Bede the Venerable · 725–731 · Commentary
Bede's commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah emerged from his comprehensive program of biblical exegesis at the monastery of Jarrow in early eighth-century Northumbria. Written between 725 and 731, during the final phase…
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Bede the Venerable · 725–730 · Commentary
Bede's commentary on the Gospel of Mark emerged from the flourishing intellectual climate of eighth-century Northumbria, where the monastery at Jarrow had become a center of biblical scholarship. Written between 725 and…
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Bede the Venerable · 725 · Treatise
De Temporum Ratione, completed by Bede in 725 at his monastery in Jarrow, stands as the most comprehensive treatment of Christian chronology produced in the early medieval period. Written as an advanced…
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Bede the Venerable · 730 · Treatise
Bede's De Orthographia is a grammatical treatise written around 730 as part of the Venerable Bede's broader educational mission at the monastery of Jarrow. Composed during the Northumbrian Renaissance when Bede was…
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Bede the Venerable · 731 · Book
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People stands as the foundational narrative of Christianity's establishment in England, written by the Northumbrian monk Bede in 731. Composed in the monastery of Jarrow, this…
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Bede the Venerable · 731 · Book
Bede's Ecclesiastical History stands as the foundational chronicle of Christianity's establishment in Britain, written by the Northumbrian monk around 731 at his monastery of Jarrow. Commissioned partly to demonstrate the spiritual legitimacy…
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Bede the Venerable · 731 · Book
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People stands as the foundational narrative of Christianity's establishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Writing from the monastery of Jarrow in 731, Bede responded to the need for…
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Origen of Alexandria · 1885 · Other
For readers who want the main works of Origen in English in one volume (with Tertullian's later works and others); the individual works are catalogued separately.
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Athanasius of Alexandria · 1892 · Book
For readers who want nearly all of Athanasius in English in one volume, with Robertson's long introduction; the individual works are catalogued separately.
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Paulinus of Nola · 1894 · Letter
The letters of Paulinus of Nola emerge from the extraordinary transformation of a wealthy Roman aristocrat who abandoned worldly success to pursue Christian asceticism in late fourth-century Gaul and Italy. Born Pontius…
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Gregory of Nazianzus · 1894 · Book
For readers who want Cyril's Catechetical Lectures and Gregory's selected orations and letters in one 1894 volume with long introductions; the individual works are catalogued separately and are better reading copies.
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Origen of Alexandria · 1896 · Other
For readers who want the English portions of Origen's Gospel commentaries; the volume also holds other early texts, and the individual works are catalogued separately.
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Jean Daniélou · 1944 · Book
Jean Daniélou's groundbreaking study emerged from the mid-twentieth century revival of patristic scholarship, when scholars were rediscovering the theological richness of the early church fathers. Writing during World War II, Daniélou sought…
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John Behr · 2013 · Book
John Behr's study of Irenaeus emerges from decades of patristic scholarship and teaching at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. Writing for both academic and ecclesial audiences, Behr seeks to recover the theological…
