Where Do I Get The Patristics For Sacred Scripture Threads?

Reading from the Old Testament, Holy Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Revelation, our priests' and bishops' sermons, and commentary by the Church Fathers. All Forum Rules apply.


Post Reply
Justin Kissel

Where Do I Get The Patristics For Sacred Scripture Threads?

Post by Justin Kissel »

I know very little of the Fathers: I freely admit my ignorance. I just want to say that because I don't want to give anyone the impression that I think I'm some kind of "patristics scholar" just because I quote them a lot. I think we need to follow them (that they are as close to an infallible interpreter of Scripture as we can get), and so I quote them a lot. I don't, however, mean to ever say that I "understand the mind of the Fathers" as though I'm some advanced theologian. I freely admit that I'm the opposite; I'm an ignorant sinner. With that in mind, then, I'd like to list some of the sources that I use to find patristic references each week:

Textweek - I get probably around 60% of the quotes from this source.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Place I normally link to when I quote the Fathers. Good selection of Saints and also more contemporary writers. (There's even a Russian section.)

(I have a number of links to other similar pages here.) Past these sources, I just look up stuff in books that I have (in topical and scriptural indexes), and I also use the Harmony of the Gospels feature in my Thompson Chain-Reference Bible to find other possible Gospel passages that might lead to patristic references. So... the cat is out of the bag! :)

Post Reply