Ignatius of Antioch, the author of the "Didache", Clement of Rome, a brilliant and passionate martyr, a down-to-earth canon lawyer, a spokesperson for the Church of Rome, seen in retrospect as the third Pope. These are some of the figures examined in this scholarly but accessible book. They belong to the period when the church was only gradually beginning to shape its own canon of Scripture, with a "New Testament" as well as the old Jewish Bible, and was progressively formalizing its structures and institutions and developing a consciousness of its own "orthodox" doctrine. Simon Tugwell guides the reader through the major figures and debates of this key age in the emergence and spread of Christianity.
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Simon Tugwell O.P. is a member of the Dominican Order.
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I teach the Apostolic Fathers and have a number of scholarly works about these writings. I discovered Tugwell late and I regret it. I thought the size of the book was an indication that it was "AF Lite." I was wrong. Tugwell is very informed about the AF and all the issues related to them. But what makes this little volume so good is that Tugwell simply can write well. He knows how to capture a reader at the beginning to get us to keep reading. Consider his first sentence in the chapter about the so-called Letter of Barnabas.
"All we really know about the author of this book is that he liked blackberries (7:8)." Or try the first sentence about Polycarp. "Polycarp is much more interesting as a person and a martyr than he is as a writer." Insightful gems like those abound. But Tugwell is not just clever with an expression. He knows his field and communicates it well. My guess is that he is (was) a good classroom teacher. I wish this book would stay in print so I can use it as a textbook and recommend it to laymen. My only criticism is that he does not treat the best literary creation among the AF, the Letter to Diognetus nor the Fragments of Papias. But other works on the AF may also sometimes leave out one or two of them for various reasons. My advice is to find a copy of this book in Amazon Marketplace and get it. I am writing to Tugwell to see if he can bring out a second edition.
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