The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church Paperback – November 30, 2010

Amazing!! And informes very well!! Definitely recommend it🤩⭐️

I checked this book out so many times from my parish library, I finally had to just buy it! I use it like a dictionary for apologetics and deepening my understanding on a theological topic. Because of books like this, referencing the Early Church, I have grown in my faith and I'm very grateful, Thank you Kimmy Akin.

I got this book, because I thought it was written from an Eastern perspective on the traditions of our Church Fathers. But it has the flavor of the Western Church, not to say that is necessarily a "bad thing," but let the buyer beware. But I really enjoyed this book to gain knowledge of the Early Church..

A must have for any Catholic wishing to know more about the history of our faith. Also a good apologetics tool.

Awesome book. Quotes from Church Fathers on a variety of beliefs in the Catholic church. Great for defending the Catholic faith and the truth that the early church was indeed Catholic.

I bought this book with an interest in getting more knowledgeable about the Church Fathers. For this purpose it is good, and yet it isn't. This book really is there to provide material for Catholic apologists to demonstrate the fact that the early Church was Catholic. This the book does admirably, covering the various different parts of Catholic dogma that are most hotly contested today, varying from abortion to asking saints for intercession. For each topic there's a bunch of patristic quotes, going from earliest to latest. This provides an excellent way to be able to quickly find this sort of stuff. However, this book really should be used only as a starting point for studying the Church Fathers. The book really is crammed full of the various quotes (which are excellent), so unfortunately Jimmy Akin didn't really have much room to get too much into the various fathers. Yeah, he does give a pretty good basic overview, but when you compare it to some other introductions to the fathers such as Pope Benedict's Church Fathers, it pales in comparison. Still, I can't really fault Jimmy Akin for that too much, as a lot of information did have to be crammed into this book. However, I still have to take off a star because the advertising gives the impression that there's a lot more than just a basic overview of the different fathers here. Overall though this is an outstanding book if you have any doubts as to whether or not Catholic dogma really is from the early Church. It's elegantly designed, and an easy read. I heartily recommend it.

This book really helped with my getting into church history studies! Jimmy Akin does a wonderful job providing quotes that help support the case for a multitude of doctrine!

The media could not be loaded. I got this as a gift for my husband & he finished it in 2 days! He absolutely loved it! Great read!