Patrick Whitworth: 4 books
Constantinople to Chalcedon
Shaping the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to...
Suffering and Glory
The Church from the Apostles to Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Patrick Whitworth tells the story of the growth of the early Christian community. Eschewing speculation, he provides a clear narrative interspersed with pithy accounts of the most significant Christian teachers in the period which culminated in the advent of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine.
It...
Gospel for the Outsider
The Gospel in Luke & Acts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Gospel of Luke uniquely proclaims that the message of good news was for the outsider in Jewish society, and indeed for any outsider in any society where the sleek, the successful and the slick are often preferred to the loser, the lonely and the lowly.
In this book, Patrick Whitworth explores...
Three Wise Men from the East
The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen—produced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline...