false 3630826 1 Following his best selling book, <i>Jesus of Nazareth</i>, and his talks published in <i>Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church</i>, Pope Benedict's <i>Church Fathers</i>presents these important figures of early Christianity in all their evangelical vitality, spiritual profundity, and uncompromising love of God. Benedict tells the true story of Christianity's against-all-odds triumph in the face of fierce pagan Roman hostility and persecution. He does this by exploring the lives and the ideas of the early Christian writers, pastors, and martyrs, the men so important to the spread of Christianity that history knows them as "the Fathers of the Church". <P> This rich and engrossing survey of the early Church includes those churchmen who immediately succeeded the Apostles, the "Apostolic Fathers": Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyon. Benedict also discusses such great Christian figures as Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian of Carthage, the Cappadocian Fathers, as well as the giants John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Leo the Great, and Benedict of Nursia, the Pope's namesake. This book is a wonderful way to get to know the Church Fathers and the tremendous spiritually rich patrimony they have bequeathed to us. 3673653 30 8 2008 The Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine 0 0 9 1 0 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 15:05:38 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 15:06:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 21 15:04:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:04:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 10 16:38:44 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 16:38:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 04 18:59:43 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:59:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 11:12:07 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:12:07 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 26 03:48:27 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 03:48:43 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 19 14:49:58 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 14:50:34 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 03 10:18:46 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 10:18:49 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 28 18:21:47 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 18:21:51 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3630826