(Saint Paul Writing His Epistles by Valentin de Boulogne or Nicolas Tournier)
APOSTOLIC AGE (37 - 100)
(Left, Clement of Alexandria, 15- - 215; Right, Quintus Florens Tertullian, 160-220)
ANTE-NICENE (100 - 321)
EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
Tertullian; Irenaeus of Lyon; Clement of Alexandria; Polycarp of Smyrna; Justin Martyr; Johannine Writings; Papias; Tatian
(Painting of Saint Anthony, by Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1480; Mosaic of St. Perpetua, Croatia)
Felicity and Perpetua; Origen of Alexandria; Plotinus; Polycarp [martyred]; Cyprian of Carthage
DESERT FATHERS
St. Anthony the Great; St. Pachomius
The Cambridge history of Christianity. Vol. 1, Origins to Constantine [electronic resource], edited by Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young
The Cambridge history of Christianity. Vol. 5, Eastern Christianity / [electronic resource], edited by Michael Angold
The community of eternal life: the study of the meaning of life for the Johannine community, David Asonye Ihenacho
Jesus through the centuries : his place in the history of culture by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Church in Ancient Society: from Galilee to Gregory the Great by Henry Chadwick
Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: the Church - 450-680 by John Meyendorff
A History of Christianity in Asia by Samuel Moffett
