About Christian Classics

Christian Classics gathers the great books of the faith — the church fathers, the reformers, the Puritans, the preachers of the revivals and the devotional writers — and makes them easy to read and to listen to today.

The texts are in the public domain, taken from careful editions such as the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and Project Gutenberg. We check each one, keep the author's words as they wrote them, and add only what helps a modern reader: clear typography, chapter divisions, and short explanations of old words and doctrines.

The glossary

Theological terms are explained with definitions adapted from unfoldingWord® Translation Words, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the glossary is shared under the same license.

Free and paid books

Most books are free, here and in the app. A few carefully prepared editions cost credits, bought in the app; you can read their first chapters free before you decide.

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