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Many evangelical Christians know very little about the Early Church Fathers. Others have heard just enough to be suspicious of them and their treatment of Scripture. Still others are becoming interested in this neglected but significant community of believers. In Getting to Know the Church Fathers, patristics scholar Bryan Litfin introduces readers to ten ancient Christians and dispels the...

the natural spiritual authority for all of Western Europe during the chaos of the early Middle Ages. Based on these considerations, we can date the emergence of Roman Catholicism to sometime around AD 500. What about “lowercase-c” catholic Christianity? We must recognize that catholic Christianity predated the emergence of its later namesake. It was established long before the Roman Catholic Church ever came into being as such. In an essay entitled “Why All Christians are Catholics,” D. H. Williams
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