The Early Church Fathers Collection - Edited by CATHOLICS

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I’ve been looking for the book collection of the 38 volume set of the Early Church Fathers, but the only versions I found have been edited by Protestants. Please tell me there is a collection of ECF edited by faithful Catholics!!

Does anyone know of any?
 
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I’ve been looking for the book collection of the 38 volume set of the Early Church Fathers, but the only versions I found have been edited by Protestants. Please tell me there is a collection of ECF edited by faithful Catholics!!

Does anyone know of any?
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Patristic study is inter-confessional - largely because it is such a vast field. There is a series sponsored by the Salesians, but I’ve come across it only once; I think it is the same as their “Strumenti della Corona Patrum”:​

G. Bosio-E. dal Covolo- M. Maritano, Intoduzione ai Padri della Chiesa, Strumenti della Corona Patrum 3,4,5; SEI 1993, 1995, 1996.
http://www.fmag.unict.it/Vademecum/Programmi0506/storia_cristianesimo.htm

**Series such as the Abbe Migne’s Patrologia Latina & Patrologia Graeca (Catholic) rely on out-of-date texts, many of them now 300 years old. They can still be useful - but they are not now always reliable for detailed study; a lot has happened since the 1860s, when Migne died; the discovery of the Didache in 1883 for instance. **

Of more recent series, the Sources Chretiennes (French) & the Greichische Christliche Schriftsteller - the latter at least has been in progress since the 19th century. Both are inter-confessional. If I were you, I would go for the Sources Chretiennes. Migne printed his texts in folios, which are not very portable - the volumes of the SC are far more convenient in every way.

Hope that helps :o ##
 
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