The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers Paperback – 1 Mar. 2013

This is a tremendous book! A humbling experience, the book really makes you come to appreciate the earliest Christian bishops, popes, monks and teachers, of which I would have been otherwise totally ignorant of. They were such important and good people, as many of them were martyrs, they bore so much suffering and torture for the Christain faith. In fact they are so essential to Christianity, that with out their devotion and martyrdom, the faith would probably not be here in the form we have it today. I also admire how the fathers kept a tight lid on heresy and mysticism, and preserved the orthodox doctrine of Christianity that we have today, I have read a lot a about mysticism and find it inferior to orthodox doctrine. The book also gives you a deep appreciation of Catholicism. I would say we are in a state of ignorance if we have not read about the fathers of the church.

A great reference book to know the history of church from the time Jesus left it with the disciplines for the next 800 years. Give you a grip of why we do what we do now.

Very enlightening and educational

Easy to read, perhaps a bit too esay.