Critical Text
Library of the Fathers
The Fathers, East and West · est. 1838 · 48-volume set
A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West — the great translation series of the Oxford Movement. Edward Bouverie Pusey planned it in 1836 and announced it in a prospectus he signed jointly with John Keble and John Henry Newman; its aim was to put the Fathers into English and furnish an evidential base for High Church Anglican claims. The first volume, Pusey’s revision of Augustine’s Confessions, appeared in 1838; the last, Cyril of Alexandria on St John, in 1885. Newman withdrew on his conversion to Rome in 1845, after which Pusey and Keble were the senior editors and Charles Marriott — Newman’s successor at St Mary’s, Oxford — carried the heaviest editorial and translating load. The set runs to forty-eight volumes and leans on two Fathers above all: sixteen volumes of Chrysostom and twelve of Augustine, with five of Athanasius and four of Gregory the Great on Job. It was issued in Oxford by John Henry Parker and in London by Rivington. Its translations were later revised for Philip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Schaff negotiated permission from Pusey’s heirs and from T&T Clark before reusing them, and his British co-publisher, James Parker & Co., was the successor to the very house that had first issued the Library of the Fathers.
In this series
48 volumes- 1Augustine — Confessions
- 2Cyril of Jerusalem — Catechetical Lectures
- 3Cyprian — Treatises
- 4Chrysostom — Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Homilies 1–24
- 5Chrysostom — Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Homilies 25–44
- 6Chrysostom — Commentary on Galatians; Homilies on Ephesians
- 7Chrysostom — Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans
- 8Athanasius — Select Treatises in Controversy with the Arians, Part 1
- 9Chrysostom — Homilies on the Statues
- 10Tertullian — Apologetic and Practical Treatises
- 11Chrysostom — Homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew, Part 1 (Homilies 1–25)
- 12Chrysostom — Homilies on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
- 13Athanasius — Historical Tracts
- 14Chrysostom — Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
- 15Chrysostom — Homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew, Part 2 (Homilies 26–58)
- 16Augustine — Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, Volume 1
- 17Cyprian — Epistles; with Pacian of Barcelona — Epistles and Other Works
- 18Gregory the Great — Morals on the Book of Job, Part 1 (Books 1–10)
- 19Athanasius — Select Treatises in Controversy with the Arians, Part 2
- 20Augustine — Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, Volume 2
- 21Gregory the Great — Morals on the Book of Job, Part 2 (Books 11–22)
- 22Augustine — Seventeen Short Treatises
- 23Gregory the Great — Morals on the Book of Job, Part 3 (Books 23–29)
- 24Augustine — Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Volume 1 (Psalms 1–36)
- 25Augustine — Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Volume 2 (Psalms 37–52)
- 26Augustine — Homilies on the Gospel and First Epistle of St John, Part 1
- 27Chrysostom — Homilies on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians
- 28Chrysostom — Homilies on the Gospel of St John, Part 1 (Homilies 1–41)
- 29Augustine — Homilies on the Gospel and First Epistle of St John, Part 2
- 30Augustine — Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Volume 3 (Psalms 53–75)
- 31Gregory the Great — Morals on the Book of Job, Part 4 (Books 30–35)
- 32Augustine — Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Volume 4 (Psalms 76–101)
- 33Chrysostom — Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Part 1 (Homilies 1–28)
- 34Chrysostom — Homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew, Part 3 (Homilies 59–90)
- 35Chrysostom — Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Part 2 (Homilies 29–55)
- 36Chrysostom — Homilies on the Gospel of St John, Part 2 (Homilies 42–88)
- 37Augustine — Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Volume 5 (Psalms 102–125)
- 38Athanasius — Festal Epistles
- 39Augustine — Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Volume 6 (Psalms 126–150)
- 40Justin Martyr — Works Now Extant
- 41Ephrem the Syrian — Select Works
- 42Irenaeus — Five Books Against Heresies
- 43Cyril of Alexandria — Commentary on the Gospel of St John, Part 1
- 44Chrysostom — Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews
- 45Ambrose — Letters
- 46Athanasius — Later Treatises, with an appendix on Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret
- 47Cyril of Alexandria — Five Tomes against Nestorius; Scholia on the Incarnation; That Christ Is One; Fragments
- 48Cyril of Alexandria — Commentary on the Gospel of St John, Part 2