EARLY CHURCH LIBRARY
Read nearly twenty million words from the early Church.
The complete public-domain Ante-Nicene Fathers and both Nicene/Post-Nicene Fathers series are stored locally and searchable. These are historical Christian writings, not Scripture; they are presented so readers can see what early Christians actually wrote rather than rely on quotations about them.
Apostolic Fathers
Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus—the earliest post-New-Testament Christian voices in this collection.
Open collection →PUBLIC DOMAINAugustine
Confessions, letters, City of God, Trinity, Psalms and more across eight volumes.
Open collection →PUBLIC DOMAINJohn Chrysostom
Major homilies, pastoral writings and verse-by-verse preaching across six volumes.
Open collection →PUBLIC DOMAINAthanasius
Fourth-century defender of Nicene Christianity, including major works and letters.
Open collection →PUBLIC DOMAINEusebius
The foundational ancient Church History plus works connected with Constantine.
Open collection →PUBLIC DOMAINSeven Ecumenical Councils
Documents and canons from Nicaea through the Second Council of Nicaea.
Open collection →What is in this collection?
The corpus includes the Apostolic Fathers, apologists, martyrs, anti-Gnostic works, early theological debates, ancient church orders, major Latin and Greek Fathers, Augustine, Chrysostom, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzen, Jerome, Ambrose, Eusebius, ecclesiastical historians, Leo, Gregory the Great, John of Damascus, and the documentary record of the first seven ecumenical councils.
How should these writings be used?
They are invaluable witnesses to Christian history, theology, worship, controversy and biblical interpretation. They are not treated as inspired Scripture, and the collection does not imply that Born Again Daily endorses every author, disputed attribution, ancient custom or editorial note contained in the nineteenth-century editions.