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Patrology; the lives and works of the fathers of the church

Patrology; the lives and works of the fathers of the church

Bardenhewer, Otto

Paperback

Ancient History GeneralBible StudiesChristian Living

ISBN10: 9353609666
ISBN13: 9789353609665
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 28 2019
Pages: 700
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Meet the minds that shaped Christianity before it was settled, safe, or uniform. Otto Bardenhewer traces the Church Fathers where they lived, wrote, argued, and prayed, across the Roman Empire church and the long weather of late antiquity christianity. Names become voices, not footnotes. Patrology: the lives and works of the fathers of the church is both a patristic theology overview and a practical patristics reference handbook: clear on who these writers were, what they produced, how their thought developed, and why their texts mattered. Read it as a church history textbook with a storyteller's grip, or keep it close as a scholarly theology companion when you need bearings in early christian literature. Bardenhewer links biography to bibliography, guiding you from the apostolic age through the great councils, and from the Ante-Nicene Fathers collection to the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, without losing sight of the human pressures behind the pages: persecution, politics, pastoral need, and intellectual inheritance. Historically, this is a cornerstone of modern patristics: a disciplined map of church fathers biographies and their writings that still rewards seminary church history readers, clergy, and theology students patristics alike, while remaining approachable for curious non-specialists. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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