Getting to Know the Church Fathers

Getting to Know the Church FathersA Trusted Introduction to the Church Fathers This concise introduction to the church fathers connects evangelical students and readers to twelve key figures from the early church. Bryan Litfin engages readers with actual people, not just abstract doctrines or impersonal events, to help them understand the fathers as spiritual ancestors in the faith. The first edition has been well received and widely used. This updated and revised edition adds

The reformation controversy over justification and church authority is presented through primary sources: historic letters between John Calvin and Cardinal Sadoleto

and the Christian life

Far from being a place of bland averaging

This tenth anniversary edition has an updated bibliography and includes a substantive postscript that reflects on the reception of the first edition

The authors explore the topic in a biblically based and historically informed manner and give practical help for cultivating spiritual relationships in congregations and beyond

and we develop societies with those around us

Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism

would scholars accept their exegetical methods

All four volumes are available in a specially priced set

Tremper Longman III (Nahum)

the relationship between the two has been addressed only peripherally if not altogether overlooked

the CCSS offers just the right level of commentary for Catholic students of the Bible