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.