Sources Chrétiennes

The collection is edited by the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes (current director: Guillaume Bady) and published in Paris by Les Éditions du Cerf.

Clement of Alexandria, the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus) John Chrysostom, Theodoret especially are strongly represented.

Augustine, given the dominant role of Etudes Augustiniennes, only appears twice (SC 75 & 116), thereby permitting a multiplicity of other patristic voices to be heard.

The bilingual edition policy launched by Sources Chrétiennes[1] has been followed by the German language series Fontes Christiani, published initially by Herder of Freiburg, Germany but now by Brepols of Turnhout, Belgium.

Sources Chrétiennes is also in charge of the BIBLINDEX project [1], Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature.

Image of the first editions of the Sources Chrétiennes on a bookshelf in the library of the Institute in Lyon.
First editions of the Sources Chrétiennes in the library of the Institute in Lyon