Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisi

Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken (the author of The First Thou

An elegant and learned introduction to the giants of Christian antiquity, this book shows how the Church can live by continually pondering the word of God.

Extracts from the writings of the Early Christian fathers, covering the main areas of Christian thought.

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