Comparison of Church Fathers Collections?

Chris K

Hello, I am wondering if anyone has done a spreadsheet comparison of all the different Patristics collections that are available on Verbum/Logos.

Between different publishers there is obviously some overlap, but there would also be some differences.  Outside of getting different translations, I am wondering if there is value in having more than one patristics collection, or which would be "more complete", etc.

Maybe if Logos/Verbum would be willing to create a "Collection Comparison" of these like they do with their packages, that would help to see which texts are in which collections and which collection would be best to buy for the individual's purpose or need.

Louis St. Hilaire

See this thread for a comparison between the CUA Fathers of the Church and Ancient Christian Writers.

The CUA set is obviously the most comprehensive, but each set has a fair amount of unique content.

Maybe at some point we could put together a comprehensive comparison, but the comparison isn't quite as straightforward as comparing base packages, since the overlap isn't identical resources, but different editions of the same work, often organized and bound differently (e.g. ANF/NPNF sometimes have dozens of works in a single volume that might be split over different volumes in the other sets).