New Advent is a website that provides online versions of various works connected with the Catholic Church. [1]
New Advent is a website that provides online versions of various works connected with the Catholic Church. [1]
New Advent was founded by Kevin Knight, a Catholic layman. [1] During the visit of Pope John Paul II for World Youth Day in 1993, Knight, then a 26-year-old resident of Denver, Colorado, was inspired to launch a project to publish the 1913 edition of the 1907–1912 Catholic Encyclopedia on the Internet. [2] Knight founded the non-profit website New Advent to house the undertaking. [1] Volunteers from the United States, Canada, France and Brazil helped in the transcription of the original material. The site went online in 1995 and transcription efforts for Catholic Encyclopedia finished in 1997. [2]
New Advent contains several public domain documents relevant to Catholics, including the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Summa Theologica , translated writings of the Church Fathers, a variety of papal encyclicals, and aggregated news relating to the Catholic Church. [1] [3]
The website provides navigation between related document through the frequent use of hyperlinks to other works hosted on its website. [1]
Writing in Reference Reviews , Georgia State University librarian Brian K. Koy labels the website as "highly recommended". Koy describes the website's content as straightforward and as being faithful to the text of the original works hosted on the website, but laments the relative lack of images and what he considers the overuse of hyperlinks. [1]
Eusebius of Caesarea, also known as Eusebius Pamphilus, was a Greek, or Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the biblical canon and is regarded as one of the most learned Christians during late antiquity. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the biblical text. As "Father of Church History", he produced the Ecclesiastical History, On the Life of Pamphilus, the Chronicle and On the Martyrs. He also produced a biographical work on Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor, who was Augustus between AD 306 and AD 337.
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