Three Wise Men from the East: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy Format:E-book Patrick Whitworth read Modern History

Patrick Whitworth read Modern History at Christ Church Oxford

This trilogy constitutes a lucid and masterly overview of the patristic period in terms of its theology and historical context

Summer 2019

We are able to see the Cappadocians not as counters in the board game of controversy but as complex human figures wrestling with the challenges of internal and external crises for the Church

with no acknowledgement of their mutual interdependence

Three Wise Men from the East: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy Format:E-book Patrick Whitworth read Modern HistoryIncludes a foreword by Rowan Williams. The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth centuryBasil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzenproduced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline of the soul which are playing a more seminal role in Christian theology today that at any time in the last four hundred years. Too often, however, their teachings are appropriated in a piecemeal