"Historian Michael Haykin examines the lives of such church fathers as Augustine, Basil of Caesarea, Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyprian of Carthage, Gregory of Nyssa, Macarius and others, as he uncovers the theological issues, debates, councils, creeds and preaching of the ancient churc…
"Ignatius of Antioch was the earliest Christian writer to develop a theology of church order and ministry that bears comparison with what became normative in later Christendom as that of bishops, priests and deacons. Allen Brent has produced a new account of the origin of such a…
The lives of the desert fathers
by ebrary, Inc, Russell, Norman, Ward, Sister Benedicta
Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto.
"Historian Michael Haykin examines the lives of such church fathers as Augustine, Basil of Caesarea, Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyprian of Carthage, Gregory of Nyssa, Macarius and others, as he uncovers the theological issues, debates, councils, creeds and preaching of the ancient churc…