PM:
The writings of The Fathers are full of spiritual food, something which the greatest of Protestant thinkers recognized, at least centuries ago. The doctrine of sola scriptura cut so much of Christianity off from this well of knowledge and guidance, unnecessarily so, in my opinion. Imagine, my friend, what it must have been like to stand in a church in Antioch or Constantinople or Alexandria more than a millenium ago and actually hear +John Chrysostomos, or +Basil the Great, or +Maximos the Confessor or +Ignatius of Antioch or +Athanasius of Alexandria preach!