The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God.(Book Review)

From: Theological Studies | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE SPIRIT OF EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT: SEEKING THE FACE OF GOD. By Robert Louis Wilken. New Haven: Yale University, 2003. Pp. xxii + 368. $29.95.

Wilken, a foremost scholar of the early Church, presents to the general public a thoroughly persuasive case for a clear thesis. He asserts that the Christian intellectual tradition of the first eight centuries takes its inspiration, categories, terms, and chief challenges mainly from God's self-revelation in historical persons and events attested by the Bible, celebrated and made present in the liturgy, and echoed in the Church's ...

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