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Tertullian · 207–212 · Treatise
For serious students of Marcion, the early canon and how Luke and Paul were read; far too long and technical for a first encounter.
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Tertullian · 207 · Treatise
For students of Gnosticism who already know the Valentinian system; a newcomer will be lost in the satire.
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Tertullian · 207 · Treatise
For students of early worship practice and of custom versus truth as authority; narrow in subject, not a first choice.
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Tertullian · 209 · Essay
For Latinists and students of rhetoric and style; by common consent his most obscure work, not for a general reader.
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Hippolytus of Rome · 210–220 · Treatise
Contra Noetum stands as one of the earliest surviving treatises dedicated to refuting modalistic monarchianism, a theological position that threatened orthodox Trinitarian doctrine in the early third century. Hippolytus of Rome composed…
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Hippolytus of Rome · 210–220 · Treatise
The Canones Apostolorum, or Apostolic Canons, represents one of the earliest systematic attempts to codify church order and liturgical practice in the Christian tradition. Written by Hippolytus of Rome in the early…
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Tertullian · 210 · Treatise
For students of early Christian views on remarriage; a severer repetition of Ad Uxorem, not a first choice.
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Tertullian · 210 · Treatise
For students of early fasting practice and the Montanist controversy; partisan, and not devotional reading.
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Tertullian · 210 · Treatise
For readers working on the resurrection of the body; long and closely argued, best after De Carne Christi.
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Tertullian · 210 · Treatise
For students of ancient psychology, medicine and the origin of the soul; the hardest and longest of his single treatises, not for a general reader.
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Tertullian · 211 · Treatise
For readers interested in Christians and military service and in tradition as an authority; not for those wanting a broad introduction.
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Tertullian · 212 · Treatise
For readers working on persecution and martyrdom ethics; a hard-line Montanist answer, not pastoral guidance.
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Tertullian · 212 · Letter
For readers interested in persecution under Roman law in one concrete, dated case; too slight to be anyone's main reading.
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Tertullian · 213 · Treatise
For readers who want to see where the Western vocabulary of the Trinity was coined, and will work for it; not a first book.
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Tertullian · 213 · Treatise
For readers working on martyrdom and its theology under persecution; scriptural throughout, not an introduction.
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Tertullian · 213 · Treatise
For students of Montanism and early teaching on remarriage; the severest of three statements of the case, not a first choice.
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Tertullian · 217 · Treatise
For students of church discipline and the Montanist split; Tertullian at his most severe, not a place to begin.
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Hippolytus of Rome · 220–230 · Treatise
The Chronicon stands as one of the earliest Christian attempts to establish a comprehensive chronology of world history from creation to the author's present day in the early third century. Hippolytus of…
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Origen of Alexandria · 220–230 · Treatise
For students of theology and of how Christian doctrine was first set out as a system; demanding, and to be read knowing that parts were later condemned.
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Hippolytus of Rome · 222–235 · Treatise
The Refutatio omnium haeresium stands as one of the most comprehensive early Christian responses to Gnostic and other heterodox movements that flourished in the second and third centuries. Written by Hippolytus of…
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Origen of Alexandria · 226–232 · Commentary
For serious students of John's Gospel and of early biblical interpretation; vast, technical, and only partly in English.
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Origen of Alexandria · 230–245 · Other
For textual scholars of the Greek and Hebrew Old Testament; a reference work, not a book to read.
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Origen of Alexandria · 233–244 · Sermon
For readers of Luke and of early preaching on the birth of Christ; Jerome's Latin only here.
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Origen of Alexandria · 233–234 · Treatise
For anyone who prays; the earliest Christian treatise on prayer and on the Lord's Prayer, and the most accessible of his major works.
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