Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 24th July 2018 in 40 days with the Fathers |
Why read
the Early Church Fa
thers?
Maybe for some of you reading this,
the question might better be phrased as: who are
the Church Fa
thers?
No doubt you will be familiar
with some of
their names: Augustine, Jerome, Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr et al. You may have even read portions or quotes by some of
these men. But that still doesn't really explain to you who
they are and why you should care, much less actually read any of
their works.
My new book deals
with a selection of some of
the most influential Early Church Fa
thers, sometimes also referred to as
the Apostolic Fa
thers (if
they lived between AD 70-150), or collectively as
the Ante Nicene...