The manuscript for The Fathers Know Best has now been uploaded to the printing house.
It is now in the physical production process, and we'll have copies back in just a few weeks.
WOO-HOO!!!
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Mouse over to find out. Click to learn more.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Often times reading about the Church Fathers you run into strange place names. You run into them just in the names of the people who lived back then: Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyr, Epiphanius of Salamis. Whew!
Where were these places?
The matter is complicated by the fact that many of them don't even exist any more. They are just ruins (if that).
For The Fathers Know Best, I wanted to clarify all of this, and so part of the project was looking up where all the places mentioned in the book are (or were) and then composing a set of maps–a process in which I had the very able assistance of my colleague Jon Sorensen, who is a photoshop wiz!
Below is one of the maps used in the book (click to enlarge). It's the one that covers the modern territory of Turkey or–as it's sometimes called–"the Second Holy Land." (Look at the number of important Christian sites on the map! And that's not even all of them!)
You might spend a few moments with the map, seeing how many of the sites you can identify. Two of St. Paul's surviving epistles were written to the Christian communities of cities on this map (as well as one of his lost epistles). The island where St. John saw the Revelation is here, as are the famed "seven churches of Asia." Several ecumenical councils occurred on this map, and many saints came from these different cities.
How many can you identify?
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
At last!
I've had a lot of people ask when the book would be available for pre-order, and now it is!
In fact, I'm pleased to tell you how to get your very own, autographed copy of the book–together with an exclusive audio interview that will not be available anywhere else.
Catholic Answers is doing a fundraising appeal based on the book because printing and properly promoting a book is expensive–particularly in the orthodox Catholic, non-profit world of niche publishing.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Probably wrote
in early 70. Various ancient sources place him as the first, second, or third
successor of St. Peter. (Most commonly, he is held to be the third, after Linus
and Cletus.) He was the author of a single surviving Letter to the Corinthians, which is often dated around 95, but this
is too late a date.
William Jurgens points to internal evidence that
places it no later than 80 or so (the date he favors) and possibly up to ten
years earlier. John A. T. Robinson shows internal evidence that places it in
the first part of the year 70. Specifically, Clement refers to sacrifices still
being offered at the temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed in July of 70.
Clement also refers to the repeated crises that have prevented him from writing
to the Corinthians until now, which is a likely reference to the violent
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Neither of these is the final final cover of The Fathers Know Best, but here are a couple of views that are pretty close.
Click to enlarge.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Welcome to the first entry of my latest blog, The Fathers Know Best. This blog is devoted to my new book of the same title (due out next month!). This blog will feature information–and video!–about the Church Fathers, including many little-known facts and surprising stories!
Sit back, subscribe, and enjoy!
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The Fathers Know Best is a book by best-selling author Jimmy Akin (release date: October 2010).
It’s also a new blog in which Jimmy shares information and video about the Church Fathers.
The world of the early Church was a rowdy and rambunctious time, so hang onto your hat and get ready for a wild ride!
- More about Jimmy Akin (link to come)
- More about The Fathers Know Best (link to come)
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
