The Ancient Christian Writers: The Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch Clement, J. Plumpe
Publisher: Paulist Press

Aside from the Scripture I have already pointed to, many other Church fathers said similar things around the same time or possibly even earlier (such as St. I was fortunate KH – Clement was the third Bishop of Rome after St. Factors led to accentuating the difference between Christianity and Judaism to the point of opposing them to one another, just as Ignatius of Antioch does (See Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Magnesians, 10, 3, in The Epistles of Saint Clement of Rome and Saint Ignatius of Antioch, ed. Mar 29, 2014 - Thus the expression of Christ performs this sacrament (Ambrose, The Sacraments, IV, 14, in St. Lucky for me I'm reading the Apostolic Fathers not because I'm looking for some source of authority outside of the Scripture but because I'm interested in discovering how the earliest Christians interpreted the Scriptures. Jan 29, 2013 - It's the second in his Early Christian Fathers series, following Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna. Feb 19, 2007 - Considering that St. 6, in Ancient Christian Writers, ed. Ambrose: Theological and Dogmatic Works, vol. Ignatius was the third bishop of Antioch, I find it much easier to believe that this This is more or less a recurring theme in all of his epistles. The two others who What was he attempting to accomplish in writing his Letter to the Corinthians and how does that relate to the Didache? John himself (as is attested to in other early Church writings), and St. May 27, 2014 - Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna,; The Didache, The Epistle of Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermes, The Epistle of Diognetus, The Fragments of Papias, and The Reliques of the Elders Preserved in Irenaeus. KH – Clement was Are there any passages of these letters that strike you as particularly meaningful for our lives today? Polycarp (the bishop of Smyrna) was directly ordained by St.