Patrology

Johannes Quasten's Patrology is a large reference-style survey of early Christian writings, written to guide English-speaking readers through the literature of the church fathers. It was the first work of this kind composed in English. Quasten did not live to finish the project because of failing health, so the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome took over and carried it to completion. Angelo di Berardino oversaw the English translation of the fourth volume, which is the edition offered here. The book runs to 667 pages in paperback.