Summary of Marcellino D'Ambrosio's When the Church Was Young

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#1 There is no official list of Fathers of the Church. The term Father of the Church is a family term, informally coined by somebody in the early Church to refer to other people in an even earlier era of the Church. When I think about the Fathers of the Church, I think about St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35–107), and his letters. In them, he writes: Do you wish to be perfect. Then be like Philip, who took his master Paul the Apostle as his pattern (to resemble), and guard Jesus as the apple of your eye. And when he who is your head and the apple of your eye sees that you have given attention to the apple, he will straightway part with you; but if you persist in keeping him with you, he will not depart from you. For this cause I have desired you to take me as an example; behold I also am a man; thou seest how greatly I am pressed upon by old age, nevertheless I do not consider it a misery, for as my master said, Thou shalt call thy old man father; for so it is.

#2 The Church Fathers are those great Christian writers who passed on and clarified the teaching of the apostles from approximately the second through the eighth centuries.

#3 The Church Fathers are those great Christian writers who passed on and clarified the teaching of the apostles from approximately the second through the eighth centuries.

#4 The Church Fathers are those great Christian writers who passed on and clarified the teaching of the apostles from approximately the second through the eighth centuries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000689

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Insights on Marcellino D'Ambrosio's When the Church Was Young

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

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Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

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Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The term Father of the Church is a family term that was coined by someone in the early Church to refer to some other people in an even earlier era of the Church. It is not a formal title officially bestowed on someone by a pope or Church council.

#2

The Fathers of the Church are those Christian writers who passed on and clarified the teaching of the apostles from approximately the second through the eighth centuries. They helped bring Christianity out of its diapers into adulthood.

#3

The period from A. D. 100 to A. 800 is a long period of time, and a lot can change in three hundred years. The Church Fathers who wrote during the age of persecution are referred to as the Ante-Nicene Fathers.

#4

The Church Fathers are a group of writers who were responsible for preserving and passing on the teachings of the apostles. They are a cloud of witnesses to what the apostles lived and taught.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The first great persecution of Christians took place in Rome under Emperor Nero in A. D. 64. The Church was blamed for the fire, and many Christians were killed as a result.

#2

The Letter of Clement is the first written evidence of the apostolic succession of leaders in the Church. It was written by a leader of the Church in Rome to the Church in Corinth, and it explained that the apostles had intended an orderly succession of leaders in the Church.

#3

The Church is the body of Christ, and to divide it is to do violence to Christ. Christians today accept the existence of thousands of different Christian churches that are separated from and sometimes hostile to each other. But the early Church Fathers regarded division among Christians with utter horror.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The Teaching of the Lord According to the Twelve Apostles, written in Greek, was discovered in 1873. It was a collection of letters by Clement and Barnabas, dating back to the earliest days of the Church, that had been compiled