CJ Bowen's Reviews > The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 2

A bowlful of useful treasure, with the occasional piece of gravel. The Instructor was very fascinating, containing a kind of thinking and a manifest desire for holiness most useful to the church, but bearing the painful stamp of Greek fondness for the denigration of creation and pleasure, and the over-exaltation of the contemplative intellectual life. The Miscellanies (Stromata) were far more philosophical than many other selections, and felt somewhat angular because of it. Shepherd of Hermas, Letter to Autolycus, and the Exhortation to the Heathen were all highlights.