Introducing: The Early Church Fathers 

So much history modern Christianity ignores. I’m glad we’re reconnecting with help from those who never forgot.

Am romanian orthodox and am impressed with your knowledge and the relaxed way you talk about our church. It's a delight to hear you. Many thanks Stephan.

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I consider it heresy you didn't talk about the tea. Nonetheless, great video, and I'm looking forward to more!

Thank you so much for these videos. I am discovering orthodoxy, being interested in it for a couple of years, but not understanding where to start and a bit nervous if I would be accepted. Your videos and been so beneficial in making me comfortable and watching these videos has been very emotional for me, as they have touched something within me that is very deep. I moved to a very tiny town in a rural area to escape the insanity of our world. I was shocked to find a tiny little Orthodox Church and yesterday I met with one of the Priests. Other than buying food at a local church Greek festival, this is the only time I have been in an Orthodox Church and the first time speaking with a Priest about their church. I felt so welcomed and received and I feel like for the first time in my life, this might be my home. He showed the icons in the church, showed me how to make the sign of the cross. I was stunned to learn that this small little parish, nearly every adult there were not born into the Orthodox Church, they were converts. I think there are many folks that grew up in a Baptist or Methodist background that feel there is something lacking. They all felt very shallow. I appreciate these videos and the hard work you are doing putting them together. You are helping me reconnect with myself and God. You are helping me to feel human again. God Bless you. And, please keep up your good work.

I just wanted to be so pure when I started to study the commentaries and homilies of the Church Fathers. Their writings revolutionised my relationship with God and Christianity. One cannot be a well-balanced theologian without their writings. They ruthlessly and meticulously preserved doctrinal Divine truth.

I'm reading the Ante nicene fathers volume 1. Im so glad to find this channel :)

Love it ❤️ I love how you bring it back to what is truly important.. which is our relationship with Jesus Christ and how it shapes us as human beings. ☦️🙏

You guys are so helpful, and I’m thankful to be able to share these videos with friends who are inquiring. I stumble through this stuff despite having a degree of understanding. You make it look easy!

I love your videos. Please don't stop! They are a perfect for introducing and reviewing the fundamentals of the Orthodox faith.

We need and want to know everything you have to share! Thank you!

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Keep up the great work! Discovering the history of the early Church and the writings and beliefs of the Fathers was a ground shifting discovery for me that changed the course of my life. I was living oversees as an Evangelical/Protestant missionary when I first encountered the Orthodox Church. So much history, beauty and profound faith that I'd never been exposed to, despite having grown up as a Christian and attending Bible school. It's a true tragedy that so many have lost (and sometimes been outright steered away from) this deposit of Faith. "On the Incarnation" by St. Athanasius is a great place to start for anyone wanting to dip their toes in.

Thank you for inspiring me to start reading the church fathers

The illustration that reading the Church fathers’ writings is like eating fresh fruit is beautiful. Thank you for this video and this channel. May the Lord bless you both and guide you according to His promise in Ephesians 2:10.

I just found your channel and I am so happy to discover it! Will continue to watch it with pleasure!

Subscribed!! Thanks for the intro discussion

"Christianity is an entirely new way to be human." - Maximus the Confessor This is beautiful. Where did he write this particular quote?

Thank you very informative and easy to follow

I'm glad to discover this channel. I wrote an essay on the Didache two years ago and I was really fascinated with what I discovered about it. I can see my next RU-vid recommendation (How the Church Fasts) and I imagine some of that will be in there. Anyway, I look forward to watching some more of your videos

I want to binge watch these so bad, just drop them all. Great work. Bought the book ''On the Incarnation'' after watching your last videos. Keep doing God's work

This is excellent. Thanks so much.

I like the music. So chill. Talking about the historical gap, growing up Anglican, my impression was Jesus ascended and then 🤷‍♀️ we just don't know what really happened for a good long time there. And like, yeah, maybe some people wrote some stuff, but can we really trust it because they were kind of biased? Now that I have some perspective, I find it interesting that I somehow imbibed that even as an Anglican. I'm ashamed to admit I was in my 30s before I had ever heard of the Great Schism, so my knowledge or understanding of Church history was nil. But then I finally reflected that the Fathers that so often get dismissed by some are the same people who helped lay the foundations of Christianity that most Christians still hold essential to the faith.. It really is akin to cutting your own legs out from under you. Still hoping to get to know the Fathers better, but a first step was not being so suspicious/skeptical towards them.

Thanks for this channel teaching about the church fathers. Looking forward to learning.

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We follow early church apostolic order in my church. The Lord has changed me so many ways 🔥😌

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More than the first five centuries ... I wonder ... About what TRANSPIRED between Jesus and apostles, the elders , between the time of Jesus' resurrection and ASCENSION .... AND where those revelations are preserved. !!!!

A fresh and plain explanation. Looking forward to your content.

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I don't know if you've heard of Isaiah Robin but he's the one who got me interested in the Early Church Fathers. I have the demo app of the whole entire collection (a library in of itself) on my tablet and I've found many gems of priceless wisdom, revelation and insight.

Thank you for your videos. It is helpful for my journey in the orthodox church.

Thank you, brother! This is very much needed.

This channel was shared with me a week ago. And I’m already sharing it with others. And I’m an old guy.

Thank you for this, I am looking into St thomas aquinas, which lead me to the church fathers, and your video was the first to pop up..

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I love this video, it's very balanced 🙌 Awesome work

You are good at explaining. Thank you. I appreciate you.

The background music playing is gentle, not too loud and enhances the video. Most videos play music that is too loud or overpowers the talking. Your stage set is really great! I'm a former Protestant who is now falling in love with orthodoxy, liturgy and the writings of the church fathers. Thank you for offering these teachings. I am learning a lot from them. God bless you

Such a nice background! I got very motivated by what you said, to learn more abouth how the early church was.

Good stuff. Keep going.

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The ascetics are on point in this video.

I'm liiking your channel and presentation. Looking forward to seeing more. P.S. You forgot to tell us what tea you're drinking today.

Good teaching! Thanks!

As an orthodox Catholic, I appreciate your channel. Although we may disagree on the Papacy, no doubt you are a brother in Christ Pax Christi

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Enjoying the videos, nice job guys keep up the good work. Do you have a recommended starting point book for those who would like to begin checking out the Church fathers?

I just found your channel. You have a great delivery style.

No need of re -inventing the truth ... But exploring ... Expounding it more minutely ... Object to grains to powder ... To molecules to atoms ...to subatomic particles to energy and matter ... and SOUL !!!

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Most of The Church Fathers’ writings were translated and preserved by St. Thomas Aquila’s, and these have been translated into English. All Western Theology comes from St. Augustine. The only information I have is “From Jesus To Christ”. the First Christians. This was on Frontline many years ago and is a priceless introduction. I was interested in Father Origen, an Eastern bishop who wrote a lot of commentary on The Scriptures.

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When are you going to drink the tea in a video? #FreeTheTea Brilliant video by the way! 😄👍

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Excellent ! Thank you ! Would it be a possibility to add just a little bit more lighting in that room ? I love LIGHT ! ( Physical and Spiritual ) : )

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How about the St Symeon the New-Theologian? He lived in AD 949-1022 and is considered as one of the Church Fathers... and technically St Gregory Palamas could also be seen as a church father.

thoughts on the early church fathers saying violence in all forms is a sin? like killing in self defense or going to war.

It would be helpful if viewers could get a better idea of the theological perspective of this channel, before we invest significant time in it. I note this is Orthodox, and that is OK, but (for instance) I would be very concerned if great deference was given to Origen, and to Universalist thought in general. Can anyone help?

Can I share this on my new TikTok? I’m looking to get more Christians inquisitive about our early church fathers, there is soo much insight we get from them that a lot of Christian’s aren’t aware of, for example, how close would their church be right now to what the church was like back in the 1st century? Thanks

Do you have any suggestions on a good podcast on the church fathers?

nice video but can you turn volume a bit down in the future

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*notices The Flame of the West* I see you are a man of culture.

Is there a resource (app) that gives us access to the early father’s writings?

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Christianity started when Jesus was born , but officially from reading the book of Acts the followers of Christ were known as Christians from the chruch of Antioch ..

Real questions… WHO DECIDED that these would be called the Church fathers? Like who came up with these metrics and categories?

I have a difficult time finding early church writings and knowing what I am looking for where do I find them?

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4/26/2024 Just found this channel looking forward to diving into the content.

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How do I find the writings of the early church Fathers? I keep finding other people talking about the early church but not the actual writings of them. Where do I start? The library? Google? Google Books?

Dr. Michael Heiser said that we should read the church fathers because they had to deal with a pagan world, and pretty soon modern Christians will have to do the same thing.

Can you link where to read the early church fathers 🙏🏼

Does the church today look anything like it looked then?

What a beautiful scene setting, photography, colours… can I suggest to introduce the Bible as the governing text of the Church …that the Church itself adopted as its own main authority to which she is to refer until the end of time. Also, amongst various and sometimes confronting opinions of the fathers on certain matters we are to follow opinion of the father that was adopted by some of the Ecumenical Councils that was dealing with the issue. As none of the fathers neither claimed nor had the fullness of the truth. Only the Church as the Body of Christ has the fullness of truth. Bc body and head aren’t different realities, really. Please keep up the great work. What a refreshing, intelligent and beautiful content in this RU-vid sea of stupid videos.

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