Here are 3.000 pages for your reading joy. This trilogy is the accounts of the early Apostolic Fathers written by Philip Schaff and edited by Alexander Roberts, D.D. & James Donaldson, LL.D. These version where published in 1885 and the ambitious aim has been to present English translations of the complete works and whereabouts of the early church Fathers down to the date of the first General Council held at Nice in A.D. 325. The trilogy gives an amazing insight into Christianity as it evolved in its earliest years. As written in the foreword of the first book:

“Those were times of heroism, not of words; an age, not of writers, but of soldiers; not of talkers, but of sufferers.”

Download the massive works here:

Fathers of the First Century – The Apostolic Fathers Vol I

Fathers of the Second Century Vol II

Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries Vol III

3 Responses to “The Apostolic Fathers – Fathers of the first, second, third and fourth century”

1. claude callender
   November 21st, 2010 @ 11:28 pm

   Cannot download any of the three works you have listed. Nothing comes up when you click on the link.

   Claude Callender

2. admin
   November 22nd, 2010 @ 12:56 pm

   Hi, please try again. Remember that the books are huge, about 1.000 pages each, it might take a couple of minutes to open them in a browser. Another thing you can do is to right-click the links and chose Save as or save link as. This will download the books to your harddrive and not open the in the browser.

3. Mike Baruffa
   October 17th, 2011 @ 3:42 am

   Just downloaded all three volumes to my reader! Thanks!

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