Gems of Christian Literature Catalog

This catalog includes a series of books about the Christian Church and the most significant events in the early period of Christianity: including the propagation of Christianity in Greece and Rome, accounts on the lives of popes, the rise of monasticism, and the struggle for ecclesiastical freedom. Please be aware that our catalogs include colorful and high-quality content, so you have to wait for a minute or less to download it fully.

About this catalog

This catalog also contains a number of the early church classics and books about the history and development of the Bible along with biographies of important personalities who influenced the creation of the Bible. The books included in this catalog are not only useful for theological students but also for those who are interested in classical literature. The best thing about this catalog is that it not only provides a comprehensive description of books but also provides a brief introduction of authors and their other literary works.

In its beginning, Christianity was considered to be a Jewish sect. This monotheistic religion is based on Jesus Christ as its founder and main figure. Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God and the Messiah who was announced in the Old Testament. According to this, Jesus died for human sins and then rose from the dead.

In the 4th century, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Since then, it has become a key influence on Western culture and has more than 2.1 billion adherents.

Christian letters originated with the "Apostolic Fathers", whose writings reflect the life of early Christianity. Apologetics was a literature of defense of the faith, while the 3rd century saw the birth of theological science.

The literature of Christian antiquity grew out of life and reflected the existence of the early Church. In the course of time, the Church grew internally, faced dangers from within and persecutions from without. The Church having reached a certain degree of maturity, felt the need to proceed to a systematic elaboration of the doctrine of the faith. All this development took place in the first three centuries of our era, before the granting of religious freedom by Emperor Constantine. The literary texts that have survived provide a detailed account of this historical itinerary.

When we speak of Christian literature, we are referring to all writings which relate to the main themes of Christianity and which, above all incorporate and make their own what we might call "the Christian way of seeing the world", its doctrinal content or its pedagogical aim. Naturally all this constitutes an enormous body of texts of the most varied nature.

Christian literature is one of the pillars supporting Christianity. Of course, the most important work is the Bible - a collection of canonical books gathered together in the Old Testament and the New Testament. According to Christians, the Holy Scriptures (as the Bible is known) convey the word of God.

A milestone in the evolution of literature, the invention of the printing press did not pass without consequences for Christian literature. Since then and particularly since the development of the printing press, the typology of "doctrinal" literature became more popular and the aim was to disseminate the message of Jesus.

Seeking to provide the best and most complete catalog of Christian literature, Trieste has put together a collection of the best books, aka the gems of Christian literature.

We start with “Epochs of church history”, a little series edited by Mandell Creighton, professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge. It provides a portable history of the most significant events of early period in the Christian Church, which consists of different books, among them:

Lives Of The Early Popes: St. Peter To St. Silvester by Thomas Meyrick

The aim of this title is to provide a consecutive account of the lives of the early popes down to the time of Constantine the Great.

The book of the popes translated by Louise Ropes Loomis

This quaint monument of curial historiography has retained enough of that charm of naive simplicity to lure the general reader of history into a study of the important facts with which it deals.

The Early Church: From Ignatius to Augustine by George Hodges

It provides an illustrative view on Christian Church history during the first four centuries after Christ. Starting with the birth of the Church in the Mediterranean, Christianity’s struggle for life against Pagan Rome, early days of persecution and so on.

Next there is “The fathers of the early church in Greece and Rome”. A series of monographs that was originally written in the period between 1880 and 1900, providing sketches on the lives, achievements and works of the Chief Fathers of the Early Church in Greece and Rome. It is hoped that this series will supply the laity with a lively, accurate and a fairly complete view of the most important periods of Church History.

Origen and Greek patristic theology by William Fairweather

This volume will guide the reader to revert to the original sources of Christian Theology in the writings of the Greek Fathers of the Church. These men were the first to attempt a systematic construction and interpretation of Christian doctrine.

There’s also “The early church classics”, a number of translations from the Greek and Latin Texts penned by the Church Fathers. Below there are some of its many books:

In Greek texts:

• St. John Chrysostom on the Priesthood, in Six Books translated by Benjamin Harris Cowper
• Clement of Alexandria: Who Is the Rich Man That Is Being Saved?, translated by Percy Mordaunt Barnard
• Fifty Spiritual Homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian, translated by Arthur James Mason
• The Epistle to Diognetus, translated by Lewis Bostock Radford
• Origen the Teacher: Being the Address of Gregory the Wonder-Worker to Origen, Together With Origen’s Letter to Gregory, translated by William Metcalfe
• The Epistles of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, translated by James Herbert Srawley

In Latin texts:

• The Shepherd of Hermas, Vol. I, translated by Charles Taylor
• The Shepherd of Hermas, Vol. II, translated by Charles Taylor
• Select Treatises of S. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, in Controversy With the Arians, translated by Members of the English Church
• Later Treatises of S. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, With Notes; And an Appendix on S. Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret, translated by Members of the English Church
• The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, translated by Henry Rosher James

This catalog has many other different books on many other different subjects as The Dominicans, The Franciscans, and historic periods such as the reformations, counter-reformation, Martin Luther, Calvinism. It has pretty much everything you can imagine and might need, be it because you want to learn something on a specific topic or because you want to teach it.