The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered

at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a

week once every four years in Oxford. These papers range over the whole

field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the

Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing

with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve

questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such

like, and some unveil new texts. The longer papers put such matters into

context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of

Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the

subject.