Christianity remained and affected the outcome. God was still seen as impassible, and asceticism was still based on the same ideal of impassibility. But to say that the outcome was not perfect is only to say that the early Fathers were human. It is not to belittle their considerable achievement or to claim that we could have done better. Apostolic Fathers Second Generation The Apostolic Fathers are the earliest Christian writers outside of the New Testament, belonging to what is called the ‘sub-apostolic