Who is a Christian?

by Ugomaria Paul Nwaeze

Are you an individual seeking truth? Have you discovered Christianity but are confused as to which Church is the true Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ? Are you a Protestant/Pentecostal who wants to get an idea of the origins of Christianity? Are you a Catholic who wants to go back in history and understand how Christianity was defended in the Early Church? Then this book is for you.

This book is designed, not to give you the whole scope of the early Church but to introduce you to those individual Christian clergymen who either knew Jesus Christ as little children or knew his Apostles personally, or knew those who knew his Apostles. You will read their own words and be able to get an idea of how they viewed Christianity, and what they taught. This knowledge will then help you understand clearly which Church is the true Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ, or it would leave you confirmed in your faith or would inspire you to find out and read more about the Early Church Fathers and Doctors of Christianity.

At the end of reading this book, you would be sure and convinced on who a Christian really is.

52 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Ce · Rating 5 out of 5]

I run into this book by chance through the IG author profile. He was promoting it and I felt curious. It's a brief book with a topic that sometimes it is needed to welcome new Catholics or defend our Church when other "christians" want to critizise us.

What I like the most is to have all those quotes from Fathers of the Church in one place. It is very clear for each explanation and with a good logic connecting all the ideas.

Give it a try, we need these authors in this crazy modern times.

[Atanas Dimitrov]

“No man hoping to advance his motives goes and gathers together people of conflicting ideas; that’s impossible, for such an endeavour is already dead before it sees the light of day.”

A well-meaning book by my friend Ugo on the age-old subject of the division of the church and which “the right” Christian church is.

“Our church is the right church and there is salvation only here” – I’ve heard that from Catholics, from Eastern Orthodox believers and from Protestants. They are all well-meaning people, but it gets tiring.

Correction and a brief comment: not everybody is well-meaning. Read about the crusades and the hundreds of thousands of Eastern Christians killed by the western Christian knights and pilgrims (and the reciprocal actions and murder of Westerners). It’s all very, very sad and no Christian should ever lift a hand against anybody, let alone other Christians.

Christ said that “he that believeth and is baptised shall be saved.” One would therefore argue that salvation is through faith alone, while the rest is a doctrinaire (some would argue pharisaic) dispute outside the spirit of the Word and the essence of the Christian faith.

But I won’t go into all of that.

Ugo’s book is full of Catholic dogmatism, naturally, and addresses the subject from that point of view. It all sounds plausible and logical, is written in an elegant and eloquent way, worthy of the subject matter discussed.

But simple and logical practical questions obstruct the true essence of any seemingly too deep of a dogmatic question on the subject. And those are a reason enough for myself not to be the book’s ideal target audience.

God’s blessings on you, Ugo. Keep strong in the faith and keep fighting for all that’s good, true and beautiful.

With so many enemies of the Church, Christ and Christians alike in the world these days, we need less division and more unity.