Now revised, Beginning to Read the Fathers is an introduction to the church's earliest writers, preachers and theologians. It presupposes no more knowledge on t

A survey of the principal themes of patristic writing, touching on the major Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church.

While the church today looks quite different than it did two thousand years ago, Christians share the same faith with the church fathers. Although separated by

Reading the corpus of texts written by the Fathers of the Church has always been a core area in Christian theology. However, scholars and academics are by no me

Christopher Hall shows that studying the writings of the leaders of the early church reveals how the Bible was understood in the centuries closest to its writin