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This Lux Patrum volume presents Athanasius’ On the Decrees of Nicaea (De Decretis) and On the Councils (De Synodis), in the classic translation by John Henry Newman. The critical Greek text of H. G. Opitz is included side-by-side with Newman’s English.

This Lux Patrum volume presents Athanasius’ Orations Against the Arians, in the classic translation by John Henry Newman. The Greek text of Metzler and Savvidis is included side-by-side with Newman’s English.

Praise for Lux Patrum’s Athanasius:

“The scholarly labors of St John Henry Newman on the legacy of Athanasius laid the foundation for the study of patristics in the English-speaking world, with an influence that continues to be felt a century and a half later. Now, for the first time ever, Newman’s elegant translations of Athanasius’ Orations against the Arians, On the Decrees of Nicaea, and On the Councils appear in print with a facing-page Greek text, giving the reader access to both a highly readable English version and Athanasius’ original words in a single volume. I heartily recommend this useful resource.“

– Matthew Crawford, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University

“St. John Henry Newman’s groundbreaking translations of St. Athanasius’s dogmatic writings have been available in the venerable Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series since the late nineteenth century but in a cramped format that is hard on the eyes. Lux Patrum’s new editions of these still-valuable translations not only present them with ample attention to aesthetics and readability but also include the original Greek text on facing pages, whether based on the most recent critical editions in the Athanasius Werke series or based on the Maurist editions conformed to them. Newman’s translations of Athanasius’s anti-Arian writings have thus been repackaged in an extremely beneficial way that will enable scholars and students alike to encounter St. Athanasius through the medium of the English translation of one of his greatest interpreters, St. John Henry Newman, while at the same time being able to make constant reference to Athanasius’s original Greek.”

– Mark DelCogliano, University of St. Thomas