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Church Fathers
- IrenaeusIrenaeus was a Greek bishop who, around the year 180, sat down to dismantle a rival vision of Christianity that promised secret wisdom to a chosen few.
- TertullianQuintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, writing from Carthage around the turn of the third century, asked a question that still echoes through the history of…
- EusebiusEusebius of Caesarea died on the 30th of May AD 339, and what he chose not to write may matter as much as what he did. In one of his own works he warns that…
- OrigenOrigen of Alexandria was, by any measure, one of the most restless minds the ancient world produced. He wrote roughly 2,000 treatises over a lifetime that…
- Augustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo was born on the 13th of November 354 in Thagaste, a small town in Roman North Africa that today is Souk Ahras, Algeria.
- Clement of AlexandriaClement of Alexandria spent years wandering the ancient world before he ever arrived in Alexandria. Born around 150 AD under the full Roman name Titus…
- John ChrysostomJohn Chrysostom collapsed and died at Comana Pontica on the 14th of September 407, on a road he never chose to walk. He was being marched toward Pitiunt, a…
- Basil of CaesareaBasil of Caesarea once told a prefect of the emperor, "Perhaps you have never yet had to deal with a bishop." The prefect, a man named Modestus, had been…
- Gregory of NyssaGregory of Nyssa wrote something no one in the ancient world had written before him: a direct, unequivocal argument that slavery itself was sinful.
- Gregory of NazianzusGregory of Nazianzus once compared himself to the Prophet Jonah, begging to be thrown overboard. "Seize me and throw me," he told a council of 150 bishops in…
- Church FathersThe Church Fathers wrote letters, sermons, and philosophical treatises that would shape the beliefs of billions of people across two millennia.
- LactantiusLactantius, born Lucius Caecilius Firmianus around the year 250, came from Berber stock in North Africa and rose to become one of the most celebrated Latin…
- JeromeJerome, the early Christian priest and scholar also known as Saint Jerome, once described crawling through the catacombs beneath Rome.