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Fathers and heretics

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What you come away with from this very well written and accessible text is a broadening of your appreciation and understanding of what it means to believe in Christ. We sometimes tend to understand our beliefs as immediately drawn from Scripture, without the intermediaries of Fathers and heretics who have greatly shaped what we mean by theology. Our faith does not live in a vacuum and it is historically conditioned. What Prestige shows is that, if you are in line with the Fathers, you are in line with the revelation of God in Christ, and you owe them a big `thank you' for their defense of the faith once delivered to the saints. For in reality, we do not believe what we believe from a virgin reading of the Bible; we are conditioned. And if you are in line with the heretics (most of whom were honest men who sought what was true, but unwilling to be open to being wrong), you are in good modern company, but not in the Church, since the great heresies for the earlier periods have resurfaced under new names, with the fundamental philosophical or theological errors are the same.

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234.2 PRE f

Z. HANDIMAN

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234.2 PRE f

Publisher

London : SPCK., 1948

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vii, 211p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

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234.2

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FAITH

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Statement of Responsibility

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