Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine

Following his best selling book,  Jesus of Nazareth , and his talks published in  Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church , Pope Benedict's Church Fathers  presents these important figures of early Christianity in all their evangelical vitality, spiritual profundity, and uncompromising love of God. Benedict tells the true story of Christianity's against-all-odds triumph in the face of fierce Roman hostility and persecution. He does this by exploring the lives and the ideas of the early Christian writers, pastors, and martyrs, men so important to the spread of Christianity that history remembers them as View Less