Editing Ante-Nicene Fathers (book) (section)

==Publication==

The series was originally published between 1867 and 1873 by the [[Presbyterian]] publishing house [[T. & T. Clark]] in Edinburgh under the title ''Ante-Nicene Christian Library'' (ANCL), as a response to the [[Oxford movement]]'s ''[[Library of the Fathers]]'' which was perceived as too strongly identified with the Anglo-Catholic movement. The volumes were edited by Rev. [[Alexander Roberts]] and [[James Donaldson (classical scholar)|James Donaldson]]. This series was available by subscription, but the editors were unable to interest enough subscribers to commission a translation of the homilies of [[Origen]].

In 1885 the Christian Literature Company, first of [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], then New York, began to issue the volumes in a reorganized form. This was done without permission, and was indeed a pirate edition. The new series was edited by the Episcopal bishop of New York, [[Arthur Cleveland Coxe|A. Cleveland Coxe]]. Coxe gave his series the title ''The Ante-Nicene Fathers''. By 1896, this American edition/revision was complete. Unable to close down the pirate, T. & T. Clark were obliged to make what terms they could.

In 1897, a volume 9, which contained new translations, was published by T. & T. Clark as an additional volume, to complete the original ANCL. Apart from volume 9, the contents entirely derived from the ANCL, but in a more chronological order. Coxe added his own introductions and notes, which were criticized by academic authorities and Roman Catholic reviewers.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43973310?seq=30  JStor website, ''Arthur Cleveland Coxe, the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Roman Catholicism'', article by Elizabeth A. Clark published in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 85, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 164-193]</ref>   

T. & T. Clark then associated with the Christian Literature Company and with other American publishers for the publication of the ''[[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]]''.