Books : The Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine
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by: Pope Benedict XVI
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 270
EAN: 9781586172459
ISBN: 158617245X
Label: Ignatius Press
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 130
Publication Date: October 30, 2008
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Sales Rank: 6146
Studio: Ignatius Press
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Following his best selling book, Jesus of Nazareth, and his talks published in Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church, Pope Benedict's Church Fatherspresents these important figures of early Christianity in all their evangelical vitality, spiritual profundity, and uncompromising love of God. Benedict tells the true story of Christianity's against-all-odds triumph in the face of fierce pagan Roman hostility and persecution. He does this by exploring the lives and the ideas of the early Christian writers, pastors, and martyrs, the men so important to the spread of Christianity that history knows them as 'the Fathers of the Church'.
This rich and engrossing survey of the early Church includes those churchmen who immediately succeeded the Apostles, the 'Apostolic Fathers': Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyon. Benedict also discusses such great Christian figures as Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian of Carthage, the Cappadocian Fathers, as well as the giants John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Leo the Great, and Benedict of Nursia, the Pope's namesake. This book is a wonderful way to get to know the Church Fathers and the tremendous spiritually rich patrimony they have bequeathed to us.
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