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38822 BARDY, Abbe.
THE CHRISTIAN LATIN LITERATURE OF THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES.
London. Sands and Co. FIRST EDITION. 1930. viii+222pp. Very good. prelims slightly foxed. Library stamps (cancelled).A survey from ranging from Tertullian, Cyprian and Novatian to Ss. Augustine, Jerome and Leo. Inc. a discussion of the poetry of the time as well as religious works.
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42508 CAECILIUS CYPRIAN, S. [NEWMAN, John Henry, translator].
THE TREATISES OF S. CAECILIUS CYPRIAN, BISHOP OF CARTHAGE AND MARTYR;
Transalted with Notes and Indices by J.H.N. (John Henry Newman)..
Oxford. John Henry Parker. 1839. xxvi+318pp.[Plus series information, publisher's list of subscribers and publisher's catalogue] Very good in chipped boards. Previous owner's book plate, stamp and signature. Minor pen annotations.In the series Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church Anterior to the Division Of the East and West.
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47286 CARROLL, Thomas K. and HALTON, Thomas.
LITURGICAL PRACTICE IN THE FATHERS.
Message of the Fathers of the Church.
Wilmington, Delaware. Michael Glazier. FIRST EDITION. 1988. 342pp. Very good in soft covers. Library stamps (cancelled).Number 21 in the series.
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43323 JOURNET, Charles.
THE CHURCH OF THE WORD INCARNATE:
An Essay in Speculative Theology. Vol. I: The Apostolic Hierarchy.
London. Sheed & Ward. FIRST EDITION. 1955. xxxi+569pp. Complete with index. Very good. No dustwrapper.Rediscovering beneath the familiar formulae the deep intuitions that gave them birth. Journet only completed Volume one, the first part of his projected series.
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43142 JOURNET, Charles.
THE CHURCH OF THE WORD INCARNATE:
An Essay in Speculative Theology.
London. Sheed & Ward. FIRST EDITION. 1955. xxxi+569pp. Complete with index. Very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper.Rediscovering beneath the familiar formulae the deep intuitions that gave them birth. Journet only completed Volume one. Described as "Vol. I: The Apostolic Hierarchy" on title page, subsequent vol...
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11228 LIETZMANN, Hans.
A HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH:
Vol. IV: The Era of the Church Fathers.
London. Lutterworth. FIRST EDITION. 1951. 212pp. Very good in dustwrappers.The final volume in the superb series takes us up to the fifth century.
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47193 LIGHTFOOT, J.B., ed. [IGNATIUS, POLYCARP]
APOSTOLIC FATHERS. PART II: S. IGNATIUS, S. POLYCARP. [IN 3 VOLS].
Revised Texts, With Introductions, Notes, Dissertations and Translations. Vol. I, Vol II. Section 1 & Vol. II Section 2..
London. Macmillan & Co. 1885. xviii+740pp, 584pp., 584-1117pp. Condition fair. Boards are worn but intact. Vol. 1 lacks outer spine. Binding of all three volumes is firm and tight. Previous owner's bookplates.Contains the original texts, primarily in Greek, but also in Latin and Syriac, plus translations, notes and commentary by Lightfoot.

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47207 ORIGEN.
THE COMMENTARY OF ORIGEN ON S. JOHN'S GOSPEL; [ 2 VOLS.]
The Text Revised; With a Critical Introduction and Indices by A.E. Brooke.
Cambridge. The University Press. FIRST EDITION thus. 1896. xxviii+328pp.; 346pp. Very good in original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering.The Greek text with notes (in Greek). Extensively indexed.
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11675 PAPINI, Giovanni.
SAINT AUGUSTINE.
London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1930. 327pp. Black and white frontispiece and three black and white illustrations. Very good in decorated black boards."The story of a soul."
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40589 PAYNE, Robert.
THE HOLY FIRE.
The Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church.
London. Robert Hale. FIRST EDITION. 1961. 344pp. Very good. Ex library copy.
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40683 ROBERTS, Alexander and DONALDSON, James, Eds.
THE ANTE-NICENE FATHERS;
Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D.325. Revised and Chronologically Arranged , with brief Prefaces and Occasional Notes by A. Cleveland Coxe. Volume V. Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian and Appendix.
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eerdmans. American reprint of the Edinburgh edition. 1978. 4to. vii+699pp. including index. Very good.Translations from the original.
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14539 STANIFORTH, Maxwell, trans.
EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS:
The Apostolic Fathers.
Penguin. 1972. 237pp. Very good in softcovers.Epistles from the first century. includes Ignatius, Polycarp, Clement and the Didache.
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13307 STEVENSON, J, ed.
A NEW EUSEBIUS:
Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church to AD. 337.
London. SPCK. FIRST EDITION. 1957. xix+427pp. Endpaper maps. Very good. No dustwrapper.Early Christian history: 319 extracts in translation covering the period up to the death of Constantine.
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46958 SWETE, Henry Barclay.
THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.
London. Macmillan. 1919. x+265pp. Very good.Lectures given at Cambridge in 1913-14 to classes of candidates for the ministry of the Church of England.
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47226 WATERWORTH, Rev. J., ed.
A COMMENTARY BY WRITERS OF THE FIRST FIVE CENTURIES ON THE PLACE OF ST. PETER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT;
And That of St. Peter's Successors in the Church.
London. Thomas Richardson & Son. FIRST EDITION. 1871. xlix+425pp. Very good in original blue, embossed boards, lightly worn..
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43935 WHITAKER, E.C.
DOCUMENTS OF THE BAPTISMAL LITURGY.
London. SPCK. FIRST EDITION. 1960. viii+220pp. Very good in dustwrapper.An examination of early baprismal rites in the Eastern and Western Church. Alcuin Club Collection No XLII.
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43938 WHITAKER, E.C.
DOCUMENTS OF THE BAPTISMAL LITURGY.
London. SPCK. FIRST EDITION. 1960. viii+220pp. Very good in dustwrapper.An examination of early baprismal rites in the Eastern and Western Church. Alcuin Club Collection No XLII.
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