1. Athanasius
2. Ignatius
3. Gregory Nazianzen
4. Irenaeus
5. Tertullian
6. Justin Martyr
7. Gregory of Nyssa
8. Origen
9. Athenagoras
10. Clement of Alexandria
Honorable mentions: Basil, Clement of Rome, Novatian, Polycarp, Hippolytus.
B”H
1. Athanasius
2. Ignatius
3. Gregory Nazianzen
4. Irenaeus
5. Tertullian
6. Justin Martyr
7. Gregory of Nyssa
8. Origen
9. Athenagoras
10. Clement of Alexandria
Honorable mentions: Basil, Clement of Rome, Novatian, Polycarp, Hippolytus.
B”H
Posted in Patristics, Top 10 Lists
Church Fathers? Who they?
Our church fathers are in a photo in the sanctuary vestibule. From 1885. Ancient history and all….
A Southern Baptist
By: Chuck Grantham on March 29, 2008
at 12:50 am
Chuck: God help you! I don’t know what I’d do if I have Charles Stanley or Al Mohler as my church fathers. :-P
By: Nick Norelli on March 29, 2008
at 2:00 am
Nick,
These are dead guys! They can’t blog:)
By: Celucien Joseph on March 29, 2008
at 12:43 pm
Celucien: With God, nothing is impossible. :)
By: Nick Norelli on March 29, 2008
at 4:18 pm
[...] shooting around over the past month. Past lists are scholars who could blog (like this one) at Nick’s and Bryan’s blogs. Halden offered the latest through experiment on the pre-modern [...]
By: Top 10 List: 20th Century Thinkers I Wish Could Blog · Notes From Off-Center on March 30, 2008
at 7:30 pm
What? No Eusebius. : ( Guess I’ll have to add him to my own top 10 list.
By: Shaun Tabatt on March 31, 2008
at 9:50 am
Shaun: He’d make a top 10 Church historians list, but he wasn’t quite pro-Nicene enough for me to want to read a blog he’d write every day. ;)
By: Nick Norelli on March 31, 2008
at 9:54 am