Excerpts of Christian Wisdom: Ancient and New: 52 Devotional Meditations

Was Christianity carefully constructed centuries after Christ?The voices in this book say otherwise - and they were there. Long before the Council of Nicaea, men and women were reading the Gospels and the letters that later became the corpus of the New Testament, wrestling with doctrine, defending the faith, and calling believers to deeper devotion.Their words have survived. And they sound like they were written yesterday. Excerpts of Christian Wisdom: Ancient and New brings 52 of those voices into your hands - one for each week of the year.Each meditation opens with a brief portrait of an early church writer, grounds you in related Scripture, then offers a carefully chosen excerpt from their writings alongside commentary that draws a direct line from their world to yours. The result is a devotional that does something most devotionals cannot: it hands you evidence.Evidence that the faith you hold was not invented, not assembled by committee, not handed down through institutional conve