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05. St. Augustine: The Lord's Sermon on the Mount

translated by John J. Epson, SS

This work was written between the years 393 to 396, when Augustine served as a priest at Hippo. In the first book he answers the question of the true meaning of The Sermon on the Mount: Is it humanely possible to put The Sermon into practice? The second book deals with the sixth and seventh chapters of this Gospel, and offers a condensed theology of prayer.

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0-8091-0246-3

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06. Didache, The: The Epistle of Barnabas, The Epistles and the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The Fragments of Papias, The Epistle to Diognetus

translated and annotated by James A. Kleist, SJ

The Didache or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, probably written before the end of the first century, purports to be an instruction based on sayings of the Lord and given by the Twelve Apostles to pagans who wished to become Christians. The Epistle of Barnabas is a homily on the mistaken Judaistic conception of the Old Testament. The Epistles consist of a covering note and a letter, which is an exhortation to the Philippians on Christian life in general. The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp is the story of this bishop of Smyrna's death at the hand of the Roman authorities in Asia for the defense of the Christian faith. The Fragments of Papias. Papias, bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor, was the author of five books, entitled Exegesis of the Lord’s Gospel. The Epistle to Diognetus is an apology for Christianity, presented by an unknown writer to a pagan of high social or political rank.

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01. Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch, The

translated and annotated by James A. Kleist, SJ

St. Clement's epistle, written c. 96, is called the first epistle, and is a model of a pastoral letter. The epistles of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Smyrna at the beginning of the second century, are addressed to six Christian communities.

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0-8091-0038-X

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57. John Cassian: The Conferences

translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP

The first complete English translation of John Cassian's (c. 360-430) Conferences, a work that records dialogues between Cassian and his traveling companion, Germanus, and the great desert masters on the recurring theme of purity of heart, which is the goal of the spiritual life.

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0-8091-0484-9

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58. John Cassian: The Institutes

translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP

The first written work of John Cassian in which he shares the wisdom of Egyptian monasticism, especially rules of monastic life and lessons on battling the eight principal vices.

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0-8091-0522-5

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16. St. Irenaeus: Proof of the Apostolic Preaching

translated and annotated by Joseph P. Smith, SJ

Written in the form of a letter, the Proof is a manual of theology designed to serve as a guide to salvation and a way to refute heretics. It was composed in Lyons and dates from the end of the second to the beginning of the third century.

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0-8091-0264-1

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59. Evagrius Ponticus: Ad Monachos

translation and commentary by Jeremy Driscoll

Proverbs from this Desert Father, translated for the first time into English.

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0-8091-0560-8

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60. Quodvultdeus of Carthage: The Creedal Homilies

translation and commentary by Thomas Macy Finn

The Creedal Homilies is a translation and commentary on the recently recovered and critically edited homilies on the Nicene Creed, delivered by Quodvultdeus, the last pre-Vandal archbishop of Carthage and young contemporary of St. Augustine.

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0-8091-0572-1

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23. Athenagoras: Embassy for the Christians, The Resurrection of the Dead

translated and annotated by Joseph Hugh Crehan, SJ

These treatises date from the last third of the second century. Athenagoras of Athens belonged to that select group of Christian laymen known as the Apologists, who supported the successors of the Apostles in the ministry of the faith by defending that faith and pleading for a just hearing before the pagan majority and pagan overlords.

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0-8091-0036-3

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40. The Poems of St. Paulinus of Nola

translated and annotated by P.G. Walsh

In general, the corpus of Paulinus' poetry has as its purpose to encourage Christians to persevere in a life of Christian commitment and to demonstrate to nominal Christians and to benevolent non-Christians the nature of that commitment. None of the extant poems were written after 409.

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0-8091-0197-1

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