Category Archives: Church History
“O the sweet exchange!” by The Epistle to Diognetus
“When our unrighteousness was fulfilled, and it had been made perfectly clear that its wages—punishment and death—were to be expected, then the season arrived during which God had decided to reveal at last His goodness and power. O, the surpassing … Continue reading
“A unique phenomenon” by Johann Nepomuk Huber
“Augustine is a unique phenomenon in Christian history. No one of the other fathers has left so luminous traces of his existence. Though we find among them many rich and powerful minds, yet we find in none the forces of … Continue reading
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“Reading the Scriptures with the Church Fathers” by Christopher Hall
“Learning to read the Bible through the eyes of Christians from a different time and place will readily reveal the distorting effect of our own cultural, historical, linguistic, philosophical and, yes, even theological lenses. This is not to assert that … Continue reading
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“By comparison, we are pygmies” by Donald Macleod
“We can never be content with parrot-like repetition of the definitions of the past. Yet it would be presumptuous to speak before we have listened to the fathers. Men like Athanasius and Augustine, Basil and Calvin, are the Newtons and … Continue reading
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“The most edifying product of Augustine’s pen” by Philip Schaff
“The Confessions are the most profitable, at least the most edifying, product of Augustine’s pen; indeed, we may say, the most edifying book in all the patristic literature. They were accordingly the most read even during his lifetime, and they have been … Continue reading
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“The study of Augustine” by Peter Brown
“The study of Augustine is endless.” –Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967/2000), x.
“My dear and faithful wife” by William Kiffin
“It pleased the Lord to take to Himself, my dear and faithful wife, with whom I had lived nearly forty-two years; whose tenderness to me, and faithfulness to God, were such as cannot, by me, be expressed, as she constantly … Continue reading
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