Jimmy Akin - The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church (EPUB, MOBI)


What Did Early Christians Really Believe?

The Answer Will Surprise and Amaze You!

The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church is a unique resource that introduces you to the teachings of the first Christians in a way no other work can. It is specially designed to make it easy for you to find the information you want and need.

Amazing features in this fact-packed book include:

  • More than 900 quotations from the writings of the early Church Fathers, 
     as well as from rare and important documents dating back to the dawn of 
     Christian history.
  • Mini-biographies of nearly 100 Fathers, as well as descriptions of dozens 
     of key early councils and writings.
  • A concise history of the dramatic spread of Christianity after Jesus told 
     his disciples to evangelize all nations.
  • Special maps showing you where the Fathers lived, including many 
     little-known and long-vanished locations.
  • A guide to nearly 30 ancient heresies, many of which have returned to 
     haunt the modern world.
  • The Fathers’ teaching on nearly 50 topics, including modern hot-button 
     issues like abortion, homosexuality, and divorce.

This groundbreaking work presents the teachings of the early Christians in a way unlike any other book. It flings open the doors of the crucial but little-known age covering the birth of Christianity and the triumphant march of the gospel throughout the ancient world.

“We are particularly blessed by this release of Jimmy Akin’s superbly compiled synopsis of the writings of the early Church Fathers. There are other works, but Akin’s finely selected and categorized collection provides a far more accessible introduction to the early Christians” —Marcus Grodi, President of The Coming Home Network and host of EWTN’s The Journey Home.


Contents:

Foreword by Marcus Grodi

PART ONE

I. Introduction
 1. About This Book
 2. About the Fathers

II. The World of the Fathers
 3. The World at a Glance
 4. “My Witnesses in Jerusalem”
 5. The Second Holy Land
 6. Greece and Rome
 7. The Far West
 8. North Africa

III. Ad Fontes!—“To the Sources!”
 9. Know Your Fathers
 10. Know Your Councils
 11. Know Your Writings
 12. Know Your Heresies

PART TWO

IV. God
 13. The One True God
 14. God Has No Body
 15. The Trinity
 16. The Three Persons of the Trinity
 17. The Divinity of Christ
 18. The Eternal Sonship of Christ
 19. Filioque

V. Creation
 20. Creation out of Nothing
 21. Creation in Genesis

VI. The Sources of Faith
 22. The Canon of Scripture
 23. Apostolic Tradition

VII. The Church and the Pope
 24. The Catholic Church
 25. Apostolic Succession
 26. Peter the Rock
 27. Peter’s Primacy
 28. Peter in Rome
 29. Peter’s Successors
 30. The Authority of the Pope

VIII. Morality
 31. Mortal Sin
 32. Abortion
 33. Contraception and Sterilization
 34. Homosexuality
 35. Astrology

IX. Sacraments and Worship
 36. Baptism as a Means of Grace
 37. Baptismal Regeneration
 38. The Necessity of Baptism
 39. Trinitarian Baptism
 40. Infant Baptism
 41. Confirmation
 42. The Real Presence
 43. The Sacrifice of the Mass
 44. Confession
 45. Bishop, Priest, and Deacon
 46. Women Priests?
 47. The Permanence of Marriage
 48. Sabbath or Sunday?

X. Mary, the Saints, the Miraculous
 49. Mary, Full of Grace
 50. Mary, Mother of God
 51. Mary, Ever Virgin
 52. Intercession of the Saints
 53. Ongoing Miracles
 54. Private Revelation

XI. The Last Things
 55. Salvation Outside the Church
 56. Reward and Merit
 57. Purgatory
 58. Hell
 59. Reincarnation?
 60. The Resurrection of the Body
 61. The Antichrist

Translations Used
Documents Used
Scripture Index
Notes


About the Author:

Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and grew up nominally Protestant. At age 20 he experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, Jimmy started an intensive study of the Bible, but the more he immersed himself in Scripture, the more he found it to support the Catholic faith. Eventually, he was compelled in conscience to enter the Catholic Church, which he did in 1992. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in the book Surprised By Truth. Akin is a Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a member on the Catholic Answers Speakers Bureau, a weekly guest on the global radio program, Catholic Answers Live, a contributing editor for Catholic Answers Magazine, and the author of numerous publications, including the books Mass Confusion, The Salvation Controversy, The Fathers Know Best, and Mass Revision.


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--Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church (e-book)
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--The Protestant's Dilemma: How the Reformation's Shocking Consequences 
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--Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind (e-book)
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--Thomas E. Woods: How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (e-book)
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--Edward Sri - A Biblical Walk Through the Mass (e-book)
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--Dr. Peter Kreeft - You Can Understand The Bible: A Practical 
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--Robert Spencer - Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between 
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