By Marcellino D'Ambrosio
And if the Bible may be interpreted in lots of methods, how will we comprehend what to make
of it? And who determined what may be within the Bible anyway?
The Church Fathers give you the solutions. those fantastic, embattled, and
sometimes eccentric males outlined the biblical canon, hammered out the Creed,
and gave us our figuring out of sacraments and salvation. it's they who
preserved for us the wealthy legacy of the early Church.
D’Ambrosio dusts off the dry theology and brings you the interesting tales and
great heroes comparable to Ambrose, Augustine, Basil, Athanasius, Chrysostom, and
Jerome. This page-turner will motivate and problem you with the lives and
insights of those seminal academics from while the Church used to be young.
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