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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> A companion volume to the same author’s The Fathers of the Greek Church and in subject-matter a continuation. Coming a cen- tury after the leaders of Christian thought in the early Church who taught and wrote in Greek these ‘Fathers’ who wrote in Latin were the pupils of their Greek forerunners teaching the same faith and thought and theology. The seven Fathers discussed in this book are Tertullian Cyprian Lactantius Ambrose Jerome Augustine and Boethius. As in his earlier volume the author places his subjects in the context of their own times and surroundings and describes their character- istics and their teaching with an absence of academic apparatus and in a very readable style which conceals the profundity of his scholarship. Professor von Campenhausen is a master of patristic studies and one of the world’s leading authorities on the thought and doctrines of the early Church; his work was recognised here by an honorary D.D. at St. Andrews University. (SP)