Books on Patristics

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Bardenhewer's "Patrology" is in my opinion the best introduction to the Church Fathers that is freely available online. It's dense and long but gives a complete account of all the known writers, their works, and significance.

Also useful are Tixeront's "Manual of Patrology" and Stearns' "Manual of Patrology".

You might also find useful Fortescue's "The Greek Fathers". Some of the information here may be slightly dated, but these books are all largely accurate and Bardenhewer is comprehensive.

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📝 How do Christians who believe that salvation can be lost interpret John 6:37-44 and John 10:11-30?
📝 Can Catholic works of ‘satisfaction’ (prayer, fasting, etc.) for the removal of temporal punishments of venial sin be credited to others still alive?
📝 What cautionary advice have evangelists given that address Gandhi's concern about "Rice Christians"?
📝 What is the minimum amount of action required to get in to heaven?
📝 Why does God desire glorification?
📝 What were the reformers' views of biblical inerrancy?
📝 How to define an independent interference by God?
📝 What is the spiritual significance of swearing on a Bible among the various churches and denominations?
📝 What theological problem in the Henoticon triggered the excommunication of the Patriarch Acacius, by the Bishop of Rome in the fifth century?
📝 Is using medication derived from tissue of aborted fetuses compatible with Catholic teaching?
📝 Do any church fathers interpret Luke 18:17 as teaching the necessity of infant baptism?
📝 Did Jesus mean that heaven and earth would actually pass away in Matthew 24:25?
📝 Should Christians uphold unjust laws that are not overtly immoral?
📝 How did the Apostle Matthew die?
📝 What's the proof for the existence of Angels as well as angelic hierarchy?
📝 Did God create Earth as a temporary place of confinement for Lucifer and his Angels?
📝 What is the biblical basis for Jeremiah and John the Baptist being born without original sin?
📝 How did Christians cultivate their knowledge of the Bible before mass-printing of the Bible?
📝 Is there a Christian equivalent to the Wiccan 'fluffy bunnies'?
📝 What is the basis for Catholics believing Jesus fell three times (or seven) on his journey to Calvary?
📝 In the NPP, if Paul's "works of the law" are only circumcision and diet, how is Galatians 3:10 interpreted?
📝 Why in the Roman Catholic Church does the sixth commandment differ between languages?
📝 Why do we focus on faith in Jesus' death and resurrection vs other kinds of faith?
📝 Does God punish babies and children who die in sin?
📝 What passages of Scripture were used by the popes and crusaders to justify the Crusades?
📝 Why is smoking a sin?
📝 Does traditional Calvinistic monergism include limited synergism in the doctrine of justification?
📝 Is John the Baptist the same John who wrote the Book of John in the New Testament?
📝 Why are Protestants from the Church of England allowed to divorce?
📝 In Scripture - Was Prophecy That was Spoken in Good Faith, ever Corrected?

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📝 How were the books of the New Testament chosen?
📝 Why were Deuterocanonical books rejected in the Reformation?
📝 Why doesn't the Catholic Bible include all books from Septuagint?
📝 Where do the names of books of Bible come from?
📝 In what order should the books of the (Protestant) Bible be read?
📝 Should a Protestant read the apocryphal books of the Bible?
📝 What deuterocanonical books are quoted in the New Testament?
📝 Is the Pope allowed to publish books after resignation?
📝 In what order were the books in the New Testament written?
📝 Which NT books were written after the destruction of the temple?
📝 Why are the books of the Protestant Bible in the order that they are in?
📝 Are there "rational" criteria for which books appear in the Bible?
📝 Should a Christian read books known to be heretical / blasphemous / against Christianity?
📝 To what are the scriptures referring when they speak of the books of the "chronicles of the kings"?
📝 What's the biggest time gap between authorship of two books of the Bible?
📝 Why are the first five books of the old testament named differently in some translations?
📝 Why are Christian books not Public Domain?
📝 Does the Christian Old Testament have the exact same list of books as the Jewish Bible?
📝 Did Martin Luther ever remove books from the New Testament canon?
📝 How widely held among Protestants is the belief that the authors of the books of James and Jude were half brothers of Jesus?
📝 How often are books quoted outside of their own book?
📝 Is there a scriptural basis for treating the non-Gospel books of the New Testament as scripture?
📝 Why do Christians have different books in their Bible?
📝 What rationale do KJV-1611-Only give for not recognizing the apocryphal books of that version?
📝 Are there books that are included in the Protestant Bible that were disputed as canonical?
📝 What books did Calvin consider canonical?
📝 Why do 21st century Protestants still not include the deuterocanonical books in the canon?
📝 Does any of the LDS extra-biblical holy books ever clearly contradict the Bible?
📝 Why aren't the books of the Bible in chronological order?

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