Henry Chadwick (1920-2008) enjoyed international renown as one of the leading church historians of the twentieth century. Scholar, teacher, churchman, accomplished musician, and ecumenist, he held senior professorial appointments at both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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J. Robert Wright -- General Theological Seminary, New York City "It is no exaggeration to say that this volume's impeccably edited chapters represent 'the very best of the very best' of Anglican patristics scholarship in the present era. Bishops, councils, monastics, liturgy, preaching, exegesis, papacy, ecumenism, and so very much more are all comprised in these over-300 pages of precise writing. Indeed, hardly anyone in the English-speaking world can now presume to write or teach about the early church without consulting the contents of this volume." Rowan Williams -- from the foreword "Henry Chadwick represented for countless people the essence of a particular kind of Anglican identity--learned, irenic, but not bland. . . . My hope is that this book will make him better known to a new generation of students of early Christianity and of the endlessly fascinating thinking of Augustine and others. Chadwick remains one of those giants onto whose shoulders we lesser mortals of the scholarly world scramble to get a view."