Overview: This new and extensively updated edition is the definitive resource for anyone interested in learning about the Church Fathers and their legacy. Ideal for RCIA, catechists, clergy, as well as lay Catholics who want to learn more about the great teachers of early Christianity.
Getting to Know the Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction
โ Scribed by Bryan M. Litfin
- Publisher
- Brazos Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense.</p><p>
<div><p>The Fathers of the Church, first published a decade <br> ago, has become the standard popular introduction to the great teachers of <br> early Christianity. Now, this new edition presents more material from more <br> of the Fathers -- including authors from little-known traditions of Egypt,
Overview: This new and extensively updated edition is the definitive resource for anyone interested in learning about the Church Fathers and their legacy. Ideal for RCIA, catechists, clergy, as well as lay Catholics who want to learn more about the great teachers of early Christianity.
We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense.</p><p>
Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in