The Gospel According to the Church Fathers

The Cripplegate ^ | September 22, 2011 | Nathan Busenitz

[RnMomof7]

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[CynicalBear]

Wow! Thank you for posting that.

[Hostage]

Amazing compilation. Thank you.

[Salvation]

**After the apostles died, was the gospel hopelessly lost until the Reformation?**

No, Gospels were all written in the first century. As were Paul’s letters.

[kosciusko51]

After the apostles died, was the gospel hopelessly lost until the Reformation?

That certainly seems to be a common assumption in some Protestant circles today. Thankfully, it is a false assumption.

I’m not entirely sure where that misconception started. But one thing I do know: it did not come from the Protestant Reformers.

I've not heard this in the Protestant circles I encounter. Anyone have an example? Thanks!

[delchiante]

How many of those church fathers have good Friday and easter Sunday in their gospel account, that is according to Rome and not scripture- unlike Paul who taught Passover and First Fruits, according to actual scripture?

[Salvation]

The Early Church Fathers

Chart of Early Church Fathers
Remembering the Early Church
The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus (Ecumenical)
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: Prayer is Answering the Word of God [Ecumenical]
On the Apostolic Fathers
Fathers vs. the Evangelicals
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: These Words are the Word of God [Ecumenical]
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: The Two Meanings of the Bible [Ecumenical]
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: Guide to the Discovery of Scripture [Ecumenical]
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: Every page of the Bible is a Hymn to Christ [Ecumenical]

The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: The Four Gospels [Ecumenical]
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: The Scriptures are one book in Christ [Ecumenical]
The Early Church Fathers on Scripture: The Nourishing Bread of Scripture [Ecumenical]
The Early Church Fathers on the Scriptures: Reading Scripture with the Early Church Fathers [Ecumenical]
Fathers of the Church
Abortion and the Early Church [Fathers] (Catholic & Orthodox Caucus)
Why do Catholics always talk about the Early Church Fathers (Apostolic Fathers)?[Ecumenical]
The Church Fathers' Marian Interpretation of the Old Testament (Catholic Caucus)
Writings of the Fathers of the Church
THE CHURCH FATHERS: A DOOR TO ROME (fundamentalist warns saying they sound too Catholic)

Were the Church Fathers Closer to Protestantism Than to Catholicism?
The Faith of Our Fathers
The Early Church Fathers on the Assumption [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Look to the Church Fathers to Shed Light on Modern Problems, Writes the Pope
Origen: The Privileged Path to Knowing God Is Love
On Origen of Alexandria: He Was a True Teacher (April 25, 2007)
St. Clement of Alexandria: One of the Great Promoters of Dialogue Between Faith and Reason (April 18, 2007)
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: The First Great Theologian of the Church (March 28, 2007)
Early Church Fathers - Worship on Sabbath or Sunday
St. Justin Martyr: He Considered Christianity the “True Philosophy” (March 21, 2007)

Truly a Doctor of Unity (St. Ignatius of Antioch) (March 14, 2007)
On St. Clement of Rome -The Church Has a Sacramental, Not Political Structure (March 7, 2007)
Quotes from the Early Church Fathers
The Early Church Fathers on Baptism - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Contraception - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Justification - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Mary’s Perpetual Virginity - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on the Immaculate Conception - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Confession / Reconciliation - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on The Real Presence - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus

The Early Church Fathers on Intercession of the Saints - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Hell - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on The Primacy of Peter/Rome (Catholic/Orthodox Caucus)
The Early Church Fathers on The Mother of God - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Mary’s Perpetual Virginity - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Salvation Outside the Church [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
The Early Church Fathers on Purgatory - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on Apostolic Succession - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
Early Church Fathers on (Oral) Tradition - Catholic/Orthodox Caucus
The Early Church Fathers on The Church (Catholic Caucus)
The Early Church Fathers

[RnMomof7]

No, Gospels were all written in the first century. As were Paul’s letters.

Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Mat 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Salvation what was the "Gospel " that Jesus preached before "the gospels" were written ?

[RnMomof7]

All written and EDITED BY>>>>>>>>>>>>ROME

[Happy1947]

No doubt they had the written words. However, if you don’t follow them or choose to modify them then what good are the words?

[RnMomof7]

What makes you think they did not follow them ?

[Salvation]

Written by disciples who knew Jesus and knew the apostles.

Not edited, sorry.

[metmom]

Excellent!

Thanks for posting that.

Indeed, justification by faith is NOT a new concept.

Even Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. Justification, imputed righteousness, occurred long before the Law was given.

[vladimir998]

“I’ve not heard this in the Protestant circles I encounter. Anyone have an example? Thanks!”

I have - many, many times heard this from Protestants. I have even heard of more bizarre understandings such as a Moody Bible school prof who refused to teach anything other than Paul’s letters because ONLY IN THEM he said do you find the gospel. Apparently he did not think the gospel was in the Gospels. Now, that is truly bizarre!

The “New Perspective on Paul” implies that Protestant understanding of Paul was different than that of the Early Church Fathers too.

Some of the bizarre pseudo-Protestant views of history - a truly revisionist history - can come out with things that are not only heretical but border on the insane: http://toledofavs.com/2014/04/21/aramaic-jesus/

[redleghunter]

Thanks for posting. These are such wonderful and beautiful quotes. Praise God.

[RnMomof7]

Written by disciples who knew Jesus and knew the apostles.

HUH?? So did Jesus preach what the writers told Him they were going to write?

Salvation..do you know whaat the gospel Jesus preached is ?

[Elsiejay]

“After the apostles died, was the gospel hopelessly lost until the Reformation?”

No, thank God, and the Reformers that sustained hope at all costs, it was not.
But the Good News was long well nigh smothered in papist error and adiaphora.

[RnMomof7]

LOL ... So did Jesus preach what the authors of the “gospels “ told Him to?

[Salvation]

The whole Bible, duh!