38-volume Early Church Fathers

[lurker]

Is this set of books still considered relevant, or has the age of its
translations made it obsolete? I ask because someone has offered to buy the
whole set for me and I dont want to misuse their generosity. Thanks.

[John W Kennedy]

As a /set/, it's excellent. You won't get the same material in English,
and affordable, in any other form. But it is old, and it has a strong
Protestant bias, so don't base any serious argument on it without
checking. It's like an encyclopedia. Great for introductions, but don't
quote it in a footnote in your doctoral thesis (unless, of course, the
translation itself is your subject).

--
John W. Kennedy
"I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of
ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."
-- Garson Kanin. "Born Yesterday"