Ad Fontesto the sources

Home

Church Authors

151 works · 5973.5k words

The Apostolic Fathers, apologists, Alexandrians, church historians, Cappadocians, Latin theologians, and the councils.

Augustine5 works · 687.6k words

Bishop of Hippo (354–430) — Confessions, City of God, and the theology of grace.

Chrysostom3 works · 129.5k words

Golden-mouthed preacher of Antioch (c. 347–407) — homilies on Matthew and John.

Athanasius4 works · 102.4k words

Defender of Nicaea (c. 296–373) — On the Incarnation, Against the Arians.

Apostolic Fathers17 works · 91.8k words

The earliest Christian writings after the New Testament (c. 90–150).

Justin Martyr7 works · 321.2k words

Philosopher and apologist (c. 100–165) — the first Christian philosophy.

Apologists8 works · 595.4k words
Alexandrians10 works · 870.4k words
Historians5 works · 554.8k words
Monastic1 works · 42.9k words
Jerome2 works · 331.2k words
Syriac & Coptic7 works · 247.5k words
Ecumenical Councils7 works · 67k words

Nicaea I to Nicaea II (325–787) — canons, decrees, and dogmatic definitions from Schaff's NPNF Series 2, vol. 14 (public domain).

Lateran1 works · 3.4k words

The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) — a labeled selection of constitutions (Schroeder's 1937 English, public domain). The full 70 await a public-domain translation.

Constance2 works · 765 words

The Council of Constance (1414–1418) — Sacrosancta (1415) and the Frequens decree (1417, abridged excerpt as printed) in J. H. Robinson's 1904 English (public domain). Further decrees are documented gaps.

Trent25 works · 84.8k words

The Council of Trent (1545–1563) — all 25 sessions, canons and decrees in J. Waterworth's 1848 translation (public domain).

Vatican I2 works · 7.2k words

The First Vatican Council (1869–1870) — Dei Filius and Pastor Aeternus complete, in the 1907 public-domain English edition.

Vatican II17 works · 1.8k words

The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) — an index of the 16 documents with summaries and links to the Vatican's official texts. The official English translations are copyrighted by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana and are not reproduced here; full texts await permission.

Ambrose6 works · 279.6k words
Basil4 works · 96.9k words
Boethius1 works · 40.0k words
Cyril5 works · 846.3k words
Gregory Nazianzus3 works · 277.8k words
Gregory Nyssa9 works · 293.2k words