Through the Church Fathers: Janua...
Through the Church Fathers: January 13

Through the Church Fathers por C. Michael Patton

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The Christian life is shaped by discipline, desire, and the nature of God Himself. Today’s readings move from Polycarp’s pastoral call to endurance and moral vigilance, through Augustine’s anguished confession of disordered love and youthful lust, and finally into Aquinas’s careful distinction between essence and existence in God—where we are reminded that God is not merely one being among others, but Being itself. Together, these readings trace the movement from ethical formation, to interior conversion, to theological clarity, showing how the early Church understood holiness as grounded in both lived obedience and the very simplicity of God’s being (Matthew 24:13; 1 Corinthians 7:32–35; Exo ... 

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Apostolic FathersThomas AquinasSumma TheologicaScholasticismThrough the Church Fathers in a YearAugustineC Michael PattonCredo HousePolycarpTheologyPatristicsEarly ChurchChurch History