{"title":"Church Fathers Books: The Early Church Fathers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Church Fathers are the bishops, monks and teachers of the early Church who handed on the faith of the Apostles: St Athanasius, St Cyril of Alexandria, St John Chrysostom, St Jacob of Serugh, St Severus of Antioch and many more. Egypt gave the Church some of the greatest of them, and the Desert Fathers who taught in its monasteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese books bring their lives and writings into plain English: translations, studies and retellings for teenagers. Read them to know what the early Church believed, and how it prayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/incarnation-teens\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Incarnation For Teens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e: St Athanasius's classic on why God became man, chapter by chapter in plain language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/saint-cyril-alexandria\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaint Cyril of Alexandria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Rodolph Yanney: free ebook on the life, times and teaching of one of the greatest bishops of Christian antiquity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-conferences\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Conferences\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e of St John Cassian: his conversations with the elder monks of Egypt in the fourth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/what-the-church-fathers-say-about-marriage\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat the Church Fathers Say about Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e: the wisdom of St John Chrysostom and other Fathers for couples.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/origen-his-life-and-teachings\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrigen: His Life and Teachings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Fr Tadros Malaty and Mina Medhat: a careful study of a foundational and debated figure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/jonah-the-prophet-a-temple-at-sea\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJonah the Prophet: A Temple at Sea!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e: free ebook of St Jacob of Serugh's writings on Jonah, presented by Fr Tadros Malaty.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho are the Church Fathers?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Church Fathers are the early Christian bishops, monks and teachers whose writings the Church holds as faithful witnesses to the teaching of the Apostles. 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For the lives of the Fathers, see our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/lives-of-saints\"\u003eLives of the Saints\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/desert-fathers\"\u003eDesert Fathers\u003c\/a\u003e books.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"volume-1-paradise-holy-fathers","title":"Volume 1: The Paradise of the Holy Fathers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Paradise of the Holy Fathers, Volume 1,\u003c\/strong\u003e tells how the first Christian monks lived in the deserts of Egypt between A.D. 250 and 400. It is the classic English translation by Dr E.A. Wallis Budge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1888 Budge, then Curator of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, found a Syriac manuscript of these lives. He translated it and published it privately in 1904, then in a revised public edition in 1907. 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