Patrology, Vol 1: The Beginnings of Patristic Literature

by Johannes Quasten

The monumental classic collection that studies the ancient Christian writers and their teachings about the early Church.

Genres: Theology, Christianity, Religion

349 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published October 1, 1983

Reviews

[Louise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting. There were excommunications even in the early Church, see page 268 on Marcion. See also the interesting description of our ensouled bodies by Irenaeus in the 2nd century on 309-310: "the perfect man consists in the commingling and the union of the soul receiving the Spirit of the Father, and the mixture of that fleshly nature which was also molded after the image of God," take away any one of the three and the result is something not a human being.

[Michael Joosten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Supremely excerptible--but, what else would you expect from what is in essence an encyclopædia of Patristics?

It is on those grounds the Quaesten's volumes (yes, there will be more beyond this one--here we haven't even made it beyond the persecutions of the early Church), and these are not found wanting. I found it easy to pick up and put back down, and that is precisely how I wound my way through it: in dribbles and drips over the course of five months.

Doing this yourself will not, alas, provide you with a full, deep knowledge of Patristic theology, but it will give you a framework for it, a historical canvas on which to see when things were written and where they were preserved. And, if like me you are a collector of facts... you will find many to add to your collection.

[Mina Sherif Soliman · Rating 4 out of 5]

هذا الكتاب هو الجزء الأول من سلسلة مؤلفه من أربعة أجزاء كلها معنية بدراسة علم الآبائيات (الباترولوجي) للباحث المرموق جوهانس كواستن ، هذا الجزء يختص بتقديم دراسة كافية و شاملة عن فكر و كتابات آباء القرنين الأول (و يلقبون بالآباء الرسوليين نسبة لمعاصرتهم للرسل و التلاميذ )و التاني ( ويلقبون بالمدافعين اليونانيين) عن الخريستولوجي و المريولوجي و السوتيرولوجي و الأنثروبولوجي و الأكليسيولوجي و الأسخاطولوجي و يتقصي بداية الصيغ الليتروجية و صيغ قانون الإيمان و الأسرار و بدايتها و أيضا بداية الكتابات الهرطوقية والأبوكريفية و تفنيد إدعائتها و الهرطقات الغنوسية و الماركيونية و المونتانية و الدوسيتية .
كتاب قري جداً ، أنصح كل قارئ مهتم بهذا المجال بإقتنائه.

[Diana Kullman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this volume years ago but this time read it with a better understanding. On to Volume II.

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