Summary of Marcellino D'Ambrosio's When the Church Was Young

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 There is no official list of Fathers of the Church. The term Father of the Church is a family term, informally coined by somebody in the early Church to refer to other people in an even earlier era of the Church. When I think about the Fathers of the Church, I think about St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35–107), and his letters. In them, he writes: Do you wish to be perfect. Then be like Philip, who took his maste