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<h1><font size="4">Church Fathers</font></h1>
<font size="4"><a target="_top" href="Fatherlists/complistalpha.htm">List of 4th Century Patristic Authors</a></font> -- List of 4th Century Patristic authors, the primary language of their writings and their location.
<p><font size="4">4th Century Patristic authors with a more detailed treatment on our page:</font></p>
<p><a href="Alexander/Alexanderintro.htm">Alexander of Alexandria</a> -- English
translations of his
correspondence as found in Opitz's <i>Urkunden.</i></p>
<p><a target="_top" href="Arius/ariusintro.htm">Arius</a> -- English translations of the
extant letters of Arius and a map showing early support for Arius.</p>
<p><a href="Athanasius/athanasius_werke.htm">Athanasius</a> -- a listing of his
works as found in <i>Athanasius</i> <i>Werke (</i>1930-).</p>
<p><a href="Eusebius%20of%20Caesarea/eusebiusworkschart.htm">Eusebius of Caesarea</a>
- a listing of his works with information about texts, translations,
bibliographies, etc.</p>
<p><a target="_top" href="Jerome/jerome_worksnew.htm">Jerome</a> -- a
chronological list of all the works of Jerome
with information about manuscripts, sources, etc.</p>
<p><a href="Marcellus%20Fragments/marcellusnew.htm">Marcellus of Ancyra</a> --
translations of his extant fragments (currently incomplete).</p>
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<p><font size="4">Bibliographical Helps</font></p>
<p><a href="Athanasius/athanasius_werke.htm"><i>Athanasius Werke</i></a>
H.-G. Opitz <i>et al. </i>(1934-5) --, works of Athanasius (vol.
1-2) and others documents relating to the Arian controversy (<i>Urkunden</i>,
vol. 3).
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<a href="Urkunden/urkundenchart.htm">Early Arian Documents</a> -- English
translations of the early Arian Documents as found in<i> </i>
<font>Opitz's <i>
Urkunden</i></font> volume (<i>Athanasius Werke</i>, vol. 3).
<p align="left"><a href="Bibliographic/clavis.htm">Clavis Patrum Latinorum</a>
-- an English checklist of the authors listed in sections 1 and 2 of <i>CPL</i>
(3rd edition, 1995), with the <i>CPL</i> numbers assigned to their works.<i>
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<p><a href="Bibliographic/CPGII.htm">Clavis Patrum Graecorum</a> -- an
English checklist of the authors listed in volume 2 of <i>CPG </i>(from
Athanasius to Chrysostom, 1974), with the <i>CPG </i> numbers assigned
to their works.<p><a href="Bibliographic/EOMIA.htm">Ecclesiae
Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima</a>. C. H. Turner (1899-1939) --
a checklist of the contents of <i>EOMIA</i>, showing which canons, creeds, and
letters of which councils are found in each volume and fascicle.
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<a href="http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/gcs/bilder/sGCS.pdf">Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller
(<i>GCS</i>)</a>. A link to the <i>GCS</i> website which gives a full
listing of the titles found in <i>GCS.</i></p>
<p><a href="Bibliographic/recommendedreading.htm">Recommended Reading</a> -- a listing of a
few books we have consulted in making this site, or we recommend for more
information.</p>
<p><a href="recommendedwebsites.htm">Recommended Websites</a> -- there are
several other sources on the web which can assist your study of Fourth Century
Christianity</p>
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<p><font size="4">Primary Texts:</font><font size="5"> </font>
<p><font size="3"><a href="Councils/councilsandcreeds.htm">Councils and Creeds</a></font><font size="4"> </font>
<font size="3">-- a collection of canons, creeds, and letters from selected
councils of the fourth century. </font>
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<a href="Papal/papalcorrespondance.htm">Fourth Century Papal Correspondence</a>
-- Greek texts of letters from fourth-century popes.</font></span></h1>
<p><a href="Marcellus%20Fragments/marcellusnew.htm">Marcellus of Ancyra</a> --
translations of his extant fragments (currently incomplete).</p>
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<a href="Urkunden/urkundenchart.htm">Early Arian Documents</a> -- English
translations of the early Arian Documents as found in<i> </i>Opitz's <i>
Urkunden</i> volume (<i>Athanasius Werke</i>, vol. 3).<br clear="all">
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<font size="4">Timelines:</font><p>
<a href="Persecution/persecutionchart.htm">Persecution Chart</a> -- A chart
showing the chronology of the Diocletian Persecution in each part of the
empire.<p>
<a href="Persecution/evolutiontetrarchy.htm">Tetrarchy Table</a> -- The
succession of Roman rulers in the early fourth century is extremely
confusing, but this chart will spell it out for you.<p>
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