The following are textbooks being used by Carl R. Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, in his course on The Ancient Church.
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From the seminary catalog:
The Ancient Church
Purpose:
• To introduce students to the major events, personalities, and ideas which shaped the life and thought of the early church
• To encourage students to think historically about the church’s past
• To enable students to read the major texts of the early Church Fathers for themselves
Topics and personalities covered include the first-century background, the Apostolic Fathers, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, trinitarian and christological debates, Augustine, the rise of
monasticism, and martyrdom.