The early Christian fathers.
Series: Studies in theology [no. 57]
Publisher: G. Duckworth
Published: 1960
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Fathers of the church.
Description: Deals individually with each Father and collectively with the thought of the schools into which they can be grouped (Asia Minor, Alexandrian, Roman, Greek and African). Describes also the early conflict with Gnosticism, the apocryphal scriptures and pseudo-apostolic writings, and the low state of culture of the pre-Nicene Church which is the general background of early Patristic studies.
Notes: "Planned ... as the first volume of a complete English patrology in three parts."