How to Read the Church Fathers
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- There are many books and videos introducing the fathers and their works to laymen, but almost nothing on how to read and research them. This video is your first-stop summary guide for how to properly and consistently read the ancient fathers, based on my forthcoming book. SHARE this one with anyone you think this will help.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:22 - What Is "Patrology"?
08:22 - Setting Goals
12:42 - Finding the Sources
18:35 - Reading the Fathers
30:25 - Drawing from the Fathers
38:23 - Conclusion
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The usage of Matthew’s meme about 16 year olds reading the church fathers was epic 😂
Brother Paul you are a blessing unto the church of Christ, keep doing yo thang. Have a blessed rest of Lent, and have a blessed Passiontide.
Thank you heaps mate
The Muller homage was absolutely epic 😂
Fantastic summation. I already shared it with some friends. I'm grateful for your work as always.
Thanks heaps man :D
This, along with your work on 1 Clement, the Papacy, and early ecclesialogy is really good. They have been very helpful in my own research on an article I am working on, "Rhetorical Subterfuge in Roman Catholic Apologetics". Still in research mode, but very much in the works.
Thank you king, and keep me updated on that :D
Looking forward to watching!
Something much more important than reading the Fathers that e converts often forget is reading the Bible.
I wouldn't assume any meaningful Christian would forget to read the Holy Scriptures over the authority of tradition or patristics.
@@jonwatson3271I agree. Of course the Bible is the just important writings for any Christian. But reading what the church fathers wrote can a lot of times help us understand what we read in the Bible. Interpreting the Bible isn’t always easy
This is very insightful about the church fathers. Thank you for sharing!
This is super helpful as someone who isnt nearly as systematized in my approach to study historical theology. Thanks Paul!
An interesting and substantive video. Thank you.
Well done! Thank you for this excellent introduction.
AV here. Congrats on moving on up to 4.4k subscribers.
Well said brother. This video was very helpful. God bless 🙏🏻
Great content brother.
This was so helpful!
Thank you for what you do Paul.
Another banger 🔥
Haha your quote from Vincent of Lerins makes me think this is why we should use the KJV in our day. It is set in an older English whose defintions cannot be changed from that time and are set and clear. Whereas modern translations have to be constantly changed to keep up with changing language. Obviously this is a joke but I think it could be an application;) awesome video. Love seeing the ortho bros and catholics freak out and not even watch it yet feel like they can comment on it. I watched the whole thing and thought it was fair and balanced and did not favor protestants or any tradition!
Can’t wait for the book
Excellent
You mean to tell me that when I find one sentence in one work of one father in one era that seems to align with something the East believes, I shouldn't become Orthodox?
Thanks a lot! Really looking forward to your book. As a protestant I feel we have a tendency to downplay the church fathers and their wealth of knowledge. Instead of Sola Scriptura we have become Solo Scriptura. Keep doing what you are doing and I pray you continually grow in your faith. Much love from Malaysia
Hey The Other Paul, I'd love to hear your response to our video on eating the Flesh of the Son of Man and drinking His Blood. I'm not sure where you stand on that issue.
Gday boss, there's one coming up within the next few weeks :)
@@TheOtherPaulCool! Keep me posted. I hope you’re doing well, man!
Didn’t even realise you had a website despite watching many of your videos. If I buy a copy of your book will you sign it?
Didn't even think about that, could do that for promotion. Tho since it's self-published I'd have to buy them first then re-ship to people. They'd be more expensive that way.
I'd love to see a video where you and Goy for Jesus dismantle the "Two-Part Romans" Theory going around. I think you should consider it!
A great book that summarizes the church fathers is A Patristic Treasury by James R. Payton.
I tend to be quite sceptical about your why reason given.
I think that in order to be the fairer regarding a text, one should not looking something into it. One simply need to learn from the text regardless of where one stands initially or what one wants to demonstrate.
However, a problem that can happen is the total disregard for the context of a writing and a "florilegium" methodology, that is both disrespectful toward the father, but also time waisting for you.
Let the text speak for itself. Do not impose on it an objective.
You are totally right saying that there is too many text around. Reading "the" father is completely impossible, and I simply laugh at people that pretend to have done it.
But you can for example read one book of one important father of a council, athanasius for Nicea (Treatise on the holy spirit), Basil for Constantinople (Of the holy spirit), Cifyl of Alexandria (On the unity of Christ) etc..
Proceedings like that, might not give you the gotcha argument against X or X or X, but it will give you the global understanding of maybe one, two or three key authors. If you have liked one specifically, you can go explore his other works.
Also REALLY important, and link to my comment above. Do not force the writing on your frame, and do not put the author on a piédestal.
Read it like you would read any other men, not like you would read scripture for example. Let the author be free to express his thought, and be free to disagree. Otherwise, you will loose your sanity very quickly.
Great video, but I have a question.
Should I start with bible before I read one of the fathers, or can they go hand in hand together?
You watched a 40 minute video in SIX minutes?!?!
Jokes aside, they can go hand in hand together. It's always good to have time with just you and the scriptures and meditating on them, but reading with the fathers a great help too (so long as their authority is not overstated).
@TheOtherPaul Wait, you can see my watch time😭. Didn't watch to full video yet, cause I want to watch when in my car, but still a good video
@@maxten1237lol you commented 3 mins after he uploaded
@@maxten1237but he’s always got bangers so it’s safe to say it’s a great video wo watching it
@@maxten1237 haha nah you just commented 6 minutes after it posted.
Can you please debunk John Henry Newman? He's often used as a proof for Roman Papism.
Maybe in the future.
Impossible to debooonk Truth.
Dude, even with your video, I'm feeling kind of not confident if I will be able to find answers to my questions with that deep searching in the early church. I'm a poor guy, and I live in Brazil, so indexes, encyclopedias, and stuff like that are very expensive to buy. Do you know good online indexes or something accessible? Please, pray for God to help me find the truth.
you begin with Saint Thomas Aquinas
Eh, maybe the Catena Aurea for finding commentaries.
Speaking as someone who lost his Protestant sympathies by reading the Fathers, I think what struck me most about reading widely in patristics was that the early church's concerns simply had nothing to do with the concerns of the Reformers. It wasn't so much that I found the counter-Protestant positions continually affirmed by the Fathers, but rather that the Fathers' concerns simply had nothing to do with anything the Reformers were talking about. This led me to realize that the concerns of the Reformation were highly parochial to 16th century Europe, and full of theological nova that were utterly foreign to the early Church. I think Protestants trying to read the Fathers for support of their positions are going to be even more deeply disappointed than they imagine - they will find a world of people who do not even care about their primary concerns, which were invented in the 1500's. My 2 cents for any Protestants wanting to get into Patristics.
Hey Paul, love you show.
Are you a Orthodox Christian?
Thanks heaps man. I'm an Anglican.
@@TheOtherPaulSo you believe doctrine which didn’t exist until the 16th century, and think that’s consistent?
@@christsavesreadromans1096 what doctrine didn't exist until the 16th century?
@@TheOtherPaul Sola fide, sola scriptura, imputation (as opposed to infusion) of righteousness.
@@christsavesreadromans1096 Sola fide: 1st Clement 32. Sola Scriptura: Augustine, On Baptism Against the Donatists, book 2 chapter 3. Imputation: Epistle to Diognetus ch. 9.
Please explain why the guys who came even a couple of hundred years after Jesus are the Church Fathers, but the guys who actually spent that 3 years with him disappear into anonymity after a Pharisee named Paul hits.
What?
@@TheOtherPaul She's asking why we never hear anything about several of the Apostles.
the epistles of peter, john, james, jude, the book of revelation...all written by paul?
☦️🕊🔥📿🙏
The entire premise of the video can be summarized as a: How to quote mine the Fathers as a Protestant and make of their overwhelming catholic positions.
Interesting.
No it can't, stop lying.
"He said the word Eucharist and mentioned bishops, he must be a Roman Catholic who affirms Vatican I!"
@@chemnitz6834 He said faith alone, he must be a Protestant! ..Yawn.
@@TheOtherPaul Not a lie if that’s what you build your platform on. But whatever helps you sleep at night.
@@icxcnika7722 yes it is a lie. Show me one place in my video where I tell anyone to "quote mine" the fathers as opposed to read in context and with honesty.
Sounds long just read the bible and reject popery
Your impatience in study and disdain for God's providential activity in the lives and works of earlier Christians is one reason why many fall into popery.
BTW, aren't you that angry guy that not only attacks Catholics but also Protestants who don't submit to you?
Laziness is a sin
Wow, your tone towards Catholic converts is quite disrespectful
It's not towards converts simpliciter, but those who (not necessarily of their own fault) convert through really poor research.
The Roman gospel falls under the anathema of the real Paul. He would be much more harsh on Romanists than the other Paul is. And why wouldn’t he? Rome denies the gospel.
@@TheOtherPaul Yeah, whatever you want to call it, it was quite disrespectful.
are you orthodox? i really like your video. i was needing a path to read the church fathers.
He is Anglican
He's Reformed Anglican.
Many thanks, and Im Anglican (with both Reformed and "Catholic" leanings)
@@TheOtherPaulAs an Eastern Orthodox Christian, I presume you are directing this video towards the Western Protestant Churches.
@@shobudski6776 more or less, but others can benefit too