A research guide to the essential digital archives for the study of the Church Fathers: open corpora, critical editions, journals, and manuscript libraries.
Between 1844 and 1866, a French priest named Jacques-Paul Migne did something no institution had managed: he printed, almost single-handedly and at ruinous speed, nearly the entire literary output of the Church Fathers. The Patrologia Latina ran to two hundred and seventeen volumes; the Patrologia Graeca to one hundred and sixty-one. Scholars have complained about…
In occupied France, in 1942, two Jesuits began a publishing project that would quietly reshape twentieth-century theology. Henri de Lubac and Jean Daniélou were convinced that the renewal of Christian thought would come not from new systems but from returning to the sources — and that the sources had to be made readable again. The…
Calvin University maintains a library that most of its own students never think about, and that thousands of pastors and researchers around the world depend on daily. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), has been digitizing the Christian written tradition since the mid-1990s, and it remains one of the most useful things on the open…
A student who wants to read Athanasius tonight has two options. He can order a critical edition and wait three weeks, or he can open a browser and have the text in four seconds. That second option exists because of a quiet act of scholarly generosity: the digitization of the Schaff corpus, and its careful…
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