Can someone provide some analysis on the comparison between the following resource sets from Paulist Press and CUA? I'm interested in knowing the strengths/weaknesses and content differences.
Ancient Christian Writers Paulist Press
Fathers of the Church Series CUA
I would also be very interested in a comparison.
I realize now why this is difficult to respond to. Waiting for some replies I tried to do a cursory compare from information on the respective product pages into an Excel spreadsheet. ... not so easy. Here is what I came up with for the subsets for works by Augustine.
8666.Augustine FOC vs ACW.pdf
It would appear from this very limited analysis that:
- FOC, having more volumes, has more content
- there is some alignment between FOC and AWC
- There appear to be 3 volumes/content that are in ACW not in FOC
Is this a helpful exercise?
Not an "expert" but from using more than a few volumes in print, I would say that the chief difference is in the introductions and notes in ACW, which are far more extensive.
See https://community.logos.com/forums/p/83069/582521.aspx where this topic came up earlier and I included a PB sample from a volume of ACW.
Against the Academics is in Fathers of the Church as Answer to Skeptics. However, Fathers of the Church does not contain the First Catechetical Instruction. Otherwise, I think your analysis is correct.
Here's a list I put together (somewhat quickly, so there may be mistakes) of titles in ACW that are not contained in FOC (or not contained in their entirety).
Athenagoras: Embassy for the Christians, The Resurrection of the DeadOrigen: Homilies 1–14 on EzekielOrigen: Prayer, Exhortation to MartyrdomOrigen: The Song of Songs, Commentary and HomiliesOrigen: Treatise on the Passover and Dialogue with HeraclidesTertullian: The Treatise against HermogenesTertullian: Treatises on Marriage and Remarriage: To His Wife, An Exhortation to Chastity, MonogamySt. Methodius: The Symposium: A Treatise on ChastityArnobius of Sicca: The Case against the Pagans, vol. 1Arnobius of Sicca: The Case against the Pagans, vol. 2Evagrius Ponticus: Ad MonachosSt. Gregory of Nyssa: The Lord's Prayer, The BeatitudesSt. John Chrysostom: Baptismal InstructionEgeria: Diary of a PilgrimageFirmicus Maternus: The Error of the Pagan ReligionsSt. Augustine on the Psalms, vol. 1St. Augustine on the Psalms, vol. 2St. Augustine: The First Catechetical InstructionPalladius: Dialogue on the Life of St. John ChrysostomPalladius: The Lausiac HistoryTheodoret of Cyrus: A Cure for Pagan MaladiesTheodoret of Cyrus: On Divine ProvidenceJohn Cassian: THe ConferencesLetters of St. Jerome, vol. 1Quodvultdeus of Carthage: The Creedal HomiliesRufinus: A Commentary on the Apostles' CreedSermons of St. Maximus of TurinSt. Jerome: Commentary on EcclesiastesSt. Jerome-Origen: Commentary on Isaiah, Origen Homilies 1–9 on IsaiahSt. Prosper of Aquitaine: Defense of St. AugustineSt. Prosper of Aquitaine: The Call of All NationsThe Works of St. Patrick: St. Secundinus: The Hymn on St. Patrick Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, vol. 1Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, vol. 2The Poems of St. Paulinus of NolaCassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, vol. 1Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, vol. 2Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, vol. 3Julianus Pomerius: The Contemplative LifeSt. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on CharityIsidore of Seville: De Ecclesiasticis OfficiisSt. Gregory the Great, Pastoral CareJulian of Toledo: Prognosticum Futuri Saeculi
Thanks for the link to the previous post, Ken. I had forgotten about that discussion.
Thank you, Louis for that list. I'm going to save that off for future reference.
Would it be possible to get a list of the FOC volumes not in ACW?
Well, most of FOC is not in ACW. It would be simpler to list the volumes of FOC that overlap with ACW:
The Apostolic FathersSaint Justin Martyr: The First Apology, The Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy of the Rule of God (Partial)Tertullian; Minucius Felix: Apologetical Works; Octavius (Partial)Saint Cyprian: Treatises (Partial)Saint Cyprian: Letters, (1-81)Pontius: Early Christian Biographies (Partial)Saint Augustine: Christian Instruction; Admonition and Grace; The Christian Combat; Faith, Hope and Charity (Partial)Saint Augustine: The Immortality of the Soul; The Magnitude of the Soul; On Music; The Advantage of Believing; On Faith in Things Unseen (Partial)Saint Augustine: The Happy Life; Answer to Skeptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil, Soliloquies (Partial)Saint Augustine: Commentary on the Lord's Sermon on the Mount with Seventeen Related Sermons (Partial)Saint Augustine: Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects: The Good Marriage, Adulterous Marriage, Holy Virginity, Faith and Works, The Creed, Faith and the Creed, The Care to be Taken for the Dead, In Answer to the Jews, The Divination of Demons (Partial)Saint Augustine: Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (Partial)Saint Augustine: The Teacher; The Free Choice of the Will; Grace and Free Will (Partial)Saint Augustine: On Genesis: Two Books on Genesis Against the Manichees ; And, On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis, an Unfinished Book (Partial)
Also, on closer examination I found that I left off a few titles that are unique to ACW in the list above:
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies, Book 2St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies, Book 3St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies, Book 1Tertullian: Treatises on Penance: On Penitence and On Purity
Again, these are quick and dirty lists, so they may contain mistakes. Also, they don't break down where there's partial overlap in volumes that contain more than one work (more of a problem in FOC than ACW, which doesn't combine works into single volumes as often as FOC).
