The Library

Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1 of 1774 works

401–500

The Fifth Century

1 work

414–442

Greek

The Festal Letters

Cyril of Alexandria · c. 376 – 444

Twenty-nine annual letters announcing the date of Easter and the beginning of the Lenten fast to the churches of Egypt, each expanding into a treatise — on fasting, on the incarnation, on why Jews and Greeks read the same signs differently.

Alexandrian · LettersExodus 1 Corinthians Isaiah JohnRead elsewhere