How shall we work through these questions in this book? In the following pages I will attempt to act as a guide to the reflections of the church fathers—bishops, pastors and, occasionally, laypeople who ministered in the church from approximately A.D. 100 to 750. Readers familiar with my earlier book, Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers, will already be aware of why I think the church fathers are important and neglected to our own detriment and peril. Those unfamiliar with this earlier book
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