God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson

Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

by Andrew B. McGowan (Editor), Brian E. Daley (Editor), Timothy J. Gaden (Editor)

These essays use particular issues, thinkers and texts to engage the question of God in early Christianity. They include studies of doctrine, and of understandings drawn from liturgy, art, and asceticism, and regarding the social order and nature.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2009

About the author

Andrew B. McGowan (PhD, University of Notre Dame), an Anglican priest, is president and dean of the Berkeley Divinity School and the J. L. Caldwell McFaddin and Rosine B. McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Divinity School. He previously served as warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, and is the author of Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals.