The Early Church Collection Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Early Church Collection Volume 1, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Early Church Collection Volume 1 by Various. Read in English by InTheDesert The collection begins with two short works on the Trinity by Gregory of Nyssa, followed by two works on Christology by Theodoret and Pope Leo I. Victorinus interprets Genesis 1 allegorically to justify certain early church practices and traces the number 7 through the whole Bible. Hippolytus lists various liturgical practices of the Roman church at the start of the 3rd century with potentially much earlier origins. In "On the Faith", Gregory of Nyssa defends the divinity of the Son of God and the Holy Spirit. The Epistle of Barnabas represents a 2nd or even 1st century example of the "parting of the ways" between early Christianity and Judaism. Commodianus' Instructions are a collection of 80 acrostic poems (not reflected in the translation) on various subjects, not least Christian responses to various Greek gods. The Martyrdom of Polycarp is one of the earliest of the church's martyrdom narratives and proved defining for the genre. The collection ends with Julian the Apostate's efforts to curtail Christianity in the Roman Empire subsequent to Constantine's conversion. (InTheDesert).

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Early Church Collection Volume 1
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 5:18:27

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• theology
• documents
• short works

Track guide

1. 01 - On the Holy Trinity and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit by Gregory of Nyssa — 20:42
2. 02 - On "Not Three Gods" by Gregory of Nyssa — 30:41
3. 03 - Demonstrations by Syllogisms by Theodoret of Cyrus — 25:15
4. 04 - The Tome of Leo by Leo the Great — 20:40
5. 05 - A Fragment on the Creation of the World by Victorinus of Pettau — 11:17
6. 06 - The Apostolic Tradition by Hippolytus of Rome — 33:58
7. 07 - On the Faith by Gregory of Nyssa — 11:07
8. 08 - The Epistle of Barnabas — 48:15
9. 09 - The Instructions of Commodianus Part 1 — 40:48
10. 10 - The Instructions of Commodianus Part 2 — 41:37
11. 11 - The Martyrdom of Polycarp — 18:46
12. 12 - Extracts From The Works Of The Emperor Julian Relative To The Christians — 15:21

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