The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

by The Church Fathers, Philip Schaff (Editor)

This is the full set of early Christian writings covering the first 4 centuries after Christ, as edited by Philip Schaff. A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works are included in this collection. Everything has been cataloged in an organized fashion to make it easy to reference with the Kindle format. The following authors are included in this Alexander of Alexandria Alexander of Lycopolis Ambrose Aphrahat Archelaus Aristides the Philosopher Arnobius Athanasius Athenagoras Augustine of Hippo Bardesanes Barnabas Basil the Great Caius Clement of Alexandria Clement of Rome Commodianus Cyprian of Carthage Cyril of Jerusalem Dionysius of Rome Dionysius the Great Ephraim the Syrian Eusebius of Caesarea Gennadius of Marseilles Gregory the Great, Pope Gregory Nazianzen Gregory of Nyssa Gregory Thaumaturgus Hermas Hilary of Poitiers Hippolytus Ignatius of Antioch Irenaeus of Lyons Jerome John of Damascus John Cassian John Chrysostom Julius Africanus Justin Martyr Lactantius Leo the Great, Pope Malchion Mar Jacob Mathetes Methodius Minucius Felix Moses of Chorene Novatian Origen Pamphilus Papias Peter of Alexandria Polycarp Rufinus Socrates Scholasticus Sozomen Sulpitius Severus Tatian Tertullian Theodoret Theodotus Theophilus Venantius Victorinus Vincent of Lérins

Genres: Reference, History, Christian, Christianity, Catholic, Church History

49857 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2016

Reviews

[Mason Kelso · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's no way I can ever finish this...

[Daniel Clemence · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too many pages to read.

[James Verreault · Rating 2 out of 5]

Deplorable Layout

While the content of this ebook is without compare and deserving of five stars on its own merit, the layout is utterly deplorable. Lacking the scrolling option in such an enormous tome is bad enough, but far worse is the primitively constructed table of contents. One must scroll interminably through it (Kindle's table of contents always features - thankfully! - a scroll function) to find what one is looking for. Even a college kid would know enough to first make a primary list of each and every Father, using hyperlinks to go to their respective sections, where their works would then be itemized in a separate table of contents for each of those sections alone.
I believe it would greatly help if Amazon laid out some hard and fast rules for ebook developers to comply with before allowing them to sell on the website, i.e. required scrolling function, required spell checking of ebooks prior to posting on the site (an appalling number of publishers obviously don't bother spell checking as their ebooks are replete with often horrendous spelling mistakes), a properly formatted table of contents, etc.