Editor: Henry Bettenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1977
This book contains a selection from the writings of the Fathers from St. Cyril of Jerusalem to St. Leo the Great.
The century and a quarter after the Council of Nicaea was mainly concerned, theologically, with the working out of the Nicene conclusions in the formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity, and the enunciation of the doctrine of the divinity and humanity of Christ. What was achieved was not a solution of the problems, but a clarification of the statement in terms which were given, if not a precise definition, at least a manageable circumscription of connotation.
Writings, along with a brief sketch of the life of each father, of the following are included:
Cyril of Jerusalem
Hilary of Poitiera
Basil of Caesarea
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nyssa
Theodore of Mopauestia
John Chrysostom
Ambrose
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo
Cyril of Alexnadria
Theodoret of Cyrus
Leo the Great
