Early Church Fathers - On Confession - Catholicism
This is a supplement to the article, Sacrament of Reconciliation - Confession. Confessing sins to a priest is something that was a universal practice and never debated in the Early Church. Below are several quotes from the Early Church Fathers ... [... more]
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Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader
 This book is a great service for all Christians: I've had to read this book twice, since I've take McKinion for two different classes. I will say up front--it was worth every minute of it, and would probably be worth reading again. The format of the book [... more]
$65.00
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Teaching About Church - Christian Living
What does the word 'church' mean to you? Is it a building with stained glass windows, a steeple and a cross? Is it a service in which you worship God? Or is it something more? Let's look at the early church as described in the Bible. In Acts ... [... more]
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Jo Kadlecek
He was impulsive, arrogant, and passionate to a fault. Yet Jesus chose him to lead the early church. Peter, one of the most colorful of Jesus' disciples, paints the picture of a man who wants desperately to be holy but is hampered by being all ... [... more]
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How to Use the Catholic Agnus Dei Sacramental
An Agnus Dei is a sacramental of the Catholic Church that has been all but unavailable since the 1960s. The use of the Agnus Dei ("Lamb of God") sacramental dates back to the early church, and indeed, the Agnus Dei may well be the oldest ... [... more]
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Medieval Architecture - An Overview - History
The major motivators of art and architecture in the middle ages were those organizations with the most money to spare - the early church and the royal families. In terms of architecture, the early church was trying to separate itself from what ... [... more]
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Origen (Early Church Fathers)
The Bible Through a Different Glass: Origen (c. 185 - c. 250) is, with Tertullian, one of the two prolific ante-Nicene Christian authors who is not recognized as a saint. That verdict on Tertullian, an apostate to the Montanist sect, is not surprising. [... more]
$125.00
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The Early Church: Origins to the Dawn of the Middle Ages
Highly readable early Christianity with great insight: I have personally done much research into what I consider the fascinating world of early Christianity in the post-apostolic period. Unfortunately, much of the literature written on the subject is [... more]
$30.50
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Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church
Pelikan's and Kelly's books are far better than Stuart Hall': I bought this book and there are two obvious things: The author is an expert on patristic and early church, and he's a zwinglian who believes firmly the Sola Scriptura axiom and this prejudice [... more]
$18.00
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Trinity and Incarnation: The Faith of the Early Church ...
Theology and Christology- key resource: I first read this book 8 years ago, and since my shelves are double stacked I often forget I have a book or just can't find the ones I remember reading before. So I just rediscovered this one today and remembered [... more]
$19.95
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The Eucharist in the New Testament and in the Early Church
Good theological resource: Anything that comes from the liturgical press is worth reading for Catholic reseach. This is no exception. The majority of the books of the New Testament as well as some patristic texts are explained in Eucharistic terms as [... more]
$19.95
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The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church
An Essential Corrective to Current Johannine Thought: Over the course of the last several years, Chuck Hill has emerged as one of best conservative patristic scholars around. This particular book is the fruit of extensive study and scholarly battles [... more]
$91.50
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