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The Early Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Clement of Rome to St. Athanasius is unavailable, but you can change that!

The writings of the Fathers of the early Church are of particular importance to anyone who wishes to understand doctrine. This book illustrates the process of development in Christian thought, life, and worship during the period which culminated in the acceptance of the Christian faith by the Emperor Constantine, and the meeting of the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. Included in this volume are St....

God set man certain limits, so that, provided he kept God’s commandment, he should remain in his original immortality: otherwise he should become mortal and dissolve into the earth from which he was created. We were not made gods at our beginning, but first we were made men, then, in the end, gods. God does this out of the purity of his goodness so that none may think him envious or ungenerous. ‘I have said, You are gods, and all of you children of the Highest.’1 So he speaks,
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