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The Church Fathers · 249–258
The Letters
Cyprian of Carthage · c. 210–258
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What it is
Eighty-one letters to and from Cyprian covering a persecution, a plague, two schisms, and a running quarrel with Rome over whether heretical baptism counts.
Why it lasted
The richest documentary record of any third-century church, showing a bishop governing in real time rather than in retrospect.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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