Read the Fathers.

I take issue, however, with the writer’s contention that the Reformers “threw the baby out with the bathwater.” That was what happened in later generations, but most of the Reformers themselves were steeped in the early church fathers and saw themselves as reclaiming Christianity’s patristic heritage.

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