The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation (FOTC or FC) is an ongoing book series of English translations of
patristic texts from
early Christian writers published by
The Catholic University of America Press. Inaugurated by its first volume in 1947, The Apostolic Fathers, and initially planned by its founder and first editorial director Ludwig Schopp to span 72 volumes,[1] the series aimed to supersede the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene Fathers and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers collections, making use of
critical editions of the relevant texts that had since become available and coupling each volume with useful features such as scholarly introductions, footnotes, bibliographies, and Scripture indices. Although originally focused on creating newer translations of previously translated texts, the series would later refocus to prioritize publishing texts never before translated into English.
In 1989, a new series titled The Fathers of the Church: Medieval Continuations was created, inaugurated by the first of six volumes of letters by
St. Peter Damian,[2] to expand the scope of translations beyond the first centuries of
Christianity.
(1947)
Salvian the Presbyter. The Writings of Salvian, the Presbyter. Translated by Jeremiah F. O'Sullivan. Includes The Governance of God, the epistles of Salvian, and the Four Books of Timothy to the Church.
(1947) St. Augustine. The Immortality of the Soul (trans. Ludwig Schopp); The Magnitude of the Soul (trans. John J. McMahon); On Music (trans. Robert Catesby Taliaferro); The Advantage of Believing (trans. Luanne Meagher); On Faith in Things Unseen (trans. Roy Joseph Deferrari and Mary Francis McDonald).
(1948) St. Augustine. The Happy Life (trans. Ludwig Schopp); Answer to Skeptics (trans. Denis J. Kavanagh); Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil (trans. Robert P. Russell); Soliloquies (trans. Thomas F. Gilligan).
(1950)
St. Basil. Ascetical Works. Translated by M. Monica Wagner.
(1950)
Tertullian. Apologetical Works. Includes Apology (trans. Emily Joseph Daly), The Testimony of the Soul (trans. Rudolph Arbesmann), To Scapula (trans. Rudolph Arbesmann), and On the Soul (trans. Edwin A. Quain).
Minucius Felix. Octavius. Translated by Rudolph Arbesmann.
^Ludwig Schopp, ed. (1947). The Apostolic Fathers. The Fathers of the Church 1. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. p. [iv].
^Peter Damian (1989). Letters, 1–30. The Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation 1. Translated by Owen Blum. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.