Saturday, August 30, 2014

Links to the works of Origen in English

More useful links on another church father can be found on this webpage.

Church fathers online

Roger Pearse, the founder of the Tertullian Project, has added more texts from other early church fathers to his website. These are out-of-copyright English translations from a wide range of writers. It's where I direct my Augustine students when they need to locate a translation of Possidius' biography of Augustine, among other things. Obviously, these aren't the latest and greatest translations necessarily as it takes 70 years for the typical book to be considered out of copyright and freely available. But they will do in a pinch for quick skimming when you can't get to a library -- or when your library doesn't have a copy of any translation. Roger also has a very useful blog about patristics news, e.g. discoveries of new manuscripts--like more sermons of Augustine and Origen's homilies on the Psalms in Greek (previously only available in Latin translation)--both from libraries in Germany.