I’m a big fan of the Internet Archive – it’s where we store the interviews for the Indie Voices Archive, it is also where I store my other vids too. The Internet Archive is great for another reason – there are loads of 19th and early 20th century theology resources there, available free to all.

Recently, one of the contributing Canadian libraries, has been posting Migne’s Patrilogia Grecae (there are some from the Latin series too). Google made some of these available earlier in the year, but the files were often corrupt, empty, or incomplete – not much use when you’re looking for a text.

For those unfamiliar with PG – and its author; Migne was a french priest known as “God’s Publisher” he collected Greek and Latin texts, organised them and published them. The man was a bit of a phenomenon. There was a rather interesting bio of him published a few years ago, sadly I can’t find it any longer. All the texts are printed int two column format in Greek and Latin, with notes. I believe there were 160 some odd volumes in total. Sadly this fantastic patristic and early medieval resource has not been re-produced in a convenient format for modern users.

The 13 volumes currently available on the Internet Archive are scans – you can download the complete PDF or view it online with an easy to use inline reader.