Defending Christianity: Early Church Fathers Against Heresy

In the tumultuous centuries following Christ’s resurrection, the early Christian church faced an existential crisis. Competing interpretations of scripture, philosophical challenges to core doctrines, and charismatic teachers offering alternative gospels threatened to fracture the faith before it could take root. Defending Christianity tells the gripping story of how the Church Fathers—brilliant theologians, courageous bishops, and devoted scholars—stood against the tide of heresy to preserve and define Christian orthodoxy. From the Gnostics’ claims of secret knowledge to Arius’s radical reimagining of Christ’s divinity, from Augustine’s battles against Donatism and Pelagianism to the fierce Christological debates that would define the nature of Jesus himself, this book illuminates the int