I first encountered the Early Church Fathers while in Catholic graduate school writing my thesis, and they opened up a whole new world to me. I was amazed at their brilliance, deep spirituality, permeation with scripture, profound beauty – and so prolific! Beautiful teaching, some of which I’d never heard before. And, to my surprise, certain things that appeared to contradict certain things in Catholicism, raising questions in my mind. They were a revelation.
This post is the fourth and final in a short series. Click here to read the introduction.
If I were to choose just one thing that really stands out to me in Orthodox Christianity, which is also the thing that brought me to it, it is reading and studying the Early Church Fathers.
I first became curious about them after becoming Catholic, as the Catholic Church teaches that it is based on scripture and tradition. Tradition meaning the Early Church Fathers, the teachers and defenders of the faith who followed in the footsteps of the Apostles.
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