Apostolic Fathers

• Works by the Church Fathers

  • The Martyrdom of Polycarp
  • On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis
  • Epistle of Polycarp

• Church Fathers (74)

  • Clement of Rome
  • Clement of alexandria
  • Greek Fathers
  • Ignatius of Antioch
  • Irenaeus
  • Irenaeus
  • Justin Martyr
  • Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
  • Origen
  • Papias
  • Patrology
  • Polycarp
  • Tertullian
  • Adamantius (Pseudo-Origen)
  • Ambrose
  • Anastasius Sinaita
  • Ante-Nicene Fathers
  • Apophthegmata Patrum
  • Apringius
  • Athanasius of Alexandria
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • Basil of Caesarea
  • Caius (presbyter)
  • Cappadocian Fathers
  • Cassiodorus
  • Chromatius
  • Commodianus
  • Cyprian
  • Cyril of Alexandria
  • Cyril of Jerusalem
  • Desert Fathers
  • Didymus the Blind
  • Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth
  • Ephraim of Antioch
  • Ephrem the Syrian
  • Epiphanius of Salamis
  • Eusebius of Caesarea
  • Facundus of Hermiane
  • Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Gregory of Nyssa
  • Hesychius of Jerusalem
  • Hilary of Poitiers
  • Hippolytus of Rome
  • Isidore of Seville
  • Jerome
  • Joannicius the Great
  • John Chrysostom
  • John II, Bishop of Jerusalem
  • John of Damascus
  • Library of the Fathers
  • List of Church Fathers
  • List of early Christian Universalists
  • Malchion
  • Marcus Diadochus
  • Nicetas of Remesiana
  • Pacian
  • Paulinus of Nola
  • Peter Chrysologus
  • Pierius
  • Pope Damasus I
  • Pope Gregory I
  • Pope Leo I
  • Pre-Schism Christian church councils
  • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
  • Pseudo-Tertullian
  • Sabinus of Heraclea
  • Severus of Antioch
  • Theodoret
  • Theognostus of Alexandria
  • Three Holy Hierarchs
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  • The Shepherd of Hermas

• Christian texts

  • Apostolic Tradition
  • To the Smyrnaeans
  • Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

• Apostolic Fathers (12)

  • Epistle of Barnabas
  • Epistle to Diognetus
  • Quadratus of Athens
  • Clement of Rome
  • Epistle of Polycarp
  • Epistle of Polycarp
  • Ignatius of Antioch
  • Papias
  • Polycarp
  • The Didache
  • The Martyrdom of Polycarp
  • The Shepherd of Hermas
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• 2nd-century Christian texts (15)

  • 1 Clement
  • Acts of Peter
  • Apocalypse of Peter
  • Apocryphon of James
  • Apocryphon of John
  • Apocryphon of John
  • Apology of Aristides
  • Clementine literature
  • Diatessaron
  • Epistle to Diognetus
  • Gospel of James
  • Gospel of Truth
  • Inscription of Abercius
  • On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis
  • The Didache
  • The Shepherd of Hermas
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• Early Christianity and Judaism (66)

  • Apostolic Age
  • Judaizers
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  • Adversus Judaeos
  • Antisemitism in the New Testament
  • Antisemitism in the New Testament
  • Aramaic of Jesus
  • But to bring a sword
  • Cenacle
  • Christianity and fringed garments
  • Christianity in the 1st century
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  • Circumcision controversy in early Christianity
  • Council of Jamnia
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  • Covenantal nomism
  • Cultural and historical background of Jesus
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  • Early Jewish Christian sects
  • Epistle of Barnabas
  • Epistle to Diognetus
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  • Figs in the Bible
  • Gilyonim
  • Godfearers
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  • Hellenistic Judaism
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  • Jacob Emden
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  • Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen
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  • Persecution of Christians in the New Testament
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  • Physician, heal thyself
  • Proselyte
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  • Quotations from the Old Testament in the New Testament
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  • Responsibility for the death of Jesus
  • Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus
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  • Simeon of Jerusalem
  • Son of God
  • Son of man
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  • The Didache
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  • Woes of the Pharisees
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• Anti-Judaism (40)

  • Marcion
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  • Antinomianism
  • Bernardine of Feltre
  • Caeca et Obdurata
  • Constantine's Sword (film)
  • Conversos
  • Disputation of Barcelona
  • Epistle to Diognetus
  • Fred Phelps
  • Goa Inquisition
  • History of the Jews in Portugal
  • Johannes Pfefferkorn
  • Judaizers
  • Law of Christ
  • Marrano
  • Martin Luther and antisemitism
  • Michèle Renouf
  • New Black Panther Party
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  • On the Jews and Their Lies
  • Otto Weininger
  • Paul of Burgos
  • Petrus Alphonsi
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  • The Goa Inquisition (book)
  • The blind leading the blind
  • Theologico- -Political Treatise
  • Victor von Carben
  • Vom Schem Hamphoras
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• 2nd-century executions (13)

  • Akiva ben Joseph
  • Chunyu Qiong
  • Ignatius of Antioch
  • Judas Cyriacus
  • Justin Martyr
  • Justin Martyr
  • Li Su (Han Dynasty)
  • Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus
  • Marcia (mistress of Commodus)
  • Polycarp
  • Quintus Aemilius Laetus
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  • Tigidius Perennis
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• Anti-Gnosticism (77)

  • Pastoral epistles
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  • Demiurge
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  • Didascalia Apostolorum
  • Didymus the Blind
  • Disciples of Plotinus
  • Enneads
  • Ephrem the Syrian
  • Epiphanius of Salamis
  • Eric Voegelin
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  • Hans Jonas
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar
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  • Henri de Lubac
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  • Huneric
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  • Ioan P. Culianu
  • Irenaeus
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  • Jeffrey Satinover
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  • Justin Martyr
  • Leucius Charinus
  • Liberian Catalogue
  • Methodius of Olympus
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  • Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
  • Nicolaism
  • Niketas Choniates
  • Numenius of Apamea
  • On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis
  • Origen
  • Panarion
  • Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople
  • Petrus Siculus
  • Philastrius
  • Photios I of Constantinople
  • Plotinus
  • Polycarp
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  • Porphyry (philosopher)
  • Proclus
  • Refutation of all Heresies
  • Second Epistle of John
  • Serapion of Antioch
  • Sozomen
  • Tertullian
  • The Shepherd of Hermas
  • The True Word
  • Theodoret
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• Apocryphal epistles (12)

  • 1 Clement
  • Apocryphon of James
  • Epistle of Barnabas
  • Epistle of the Corinthians to Paul
  • Epistle to Seneca the Younger
  • Epistle to Seneca the Younger
  • Epistle to the Laodiceans
  • Epistula Apostolorum
  • Ignatius of Antioch (Letters)
  • Letter of Peter to Philip
  • Letter to the Trallians
  • Third Epistle to the Corinthians
  • To the Smyrnaeans
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• Christian history (58)

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• Ancient Christianity (37)

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• Christian pacifists (11)

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• Episcopacy in Anglicanism

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• Hellenism and Christianity (39)

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  • Names of the Greeks (Hellene comes to mean "pagan")
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• Christian denominations, unions, and movements established in the 2nd century

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• Bishops by type (27)

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• Church beginnings (10)

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• See also (20)

  • Christianity
  • 2 Clement
  • Bart D. Ehrman
  • Magnesians
  • Tryphon
  • Tryphon
  • Philip Schaff
  • Michael W. Holmes
  • Ulfilas
  • Bishop of Antioch
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