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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....

If men think only of the weakness of the flesh, and do not consider the power of him who raises it from the dead, they ignore the might of God.… For God fails in power if he does not give life to mortality and bring corruptibility to incorruption. But we ought to infer God’s power in all these things from a consideration of our beginning; God took clay from the earth, and fashioned man. Now to bring man to being, to make a living and rational creature, of bones, muscles, veins and all the rest of