James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude Bray Gerald L.Pevná vazba
James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude Bray Gerald L.Pevná vazba - A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winnerBecause the Catholic Epistles focus on orthodox faith and morals, the Fathers drew on them…
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James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude Bray Gerald L.Pevná vazba
- A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winnerBecause the Catholic Epistles focus on orthodox faith and morals, the Fathers drew on them as a means of defense against the rising challenge of heretics. Many of the Fathers unabashedly saw in them anticipatory attacks on Marcion and strong defenses against the Arians. This factor gave these letters a freshness and relevance to conditions in the fourth and fifth centuries that might otherwise seem surprising.
Above all, the Fathers found in the Catholic Epistles a manual for spiritual warfare, counsel for the faithful in the cosmic struggle between good and evil. They did so quite naturally because in their view truth was eternal and deviations from it had existed from the beginning. In them was sound instruction in the ways of self-sacrifice, generosity and humility, through which the cosmic forces of evil