Shepherd of Hermas Collection: 2 Books

loved reading this!!

I recommend this for every Christian library for those who want to dig into the history of the early church.

I love how so many people review the writings of the early Church fathers as sounding too "Catholic." Welcome to the early Church, the Christian religion has been changed. Whether you like it or not, early Christians were very much "Catholic." Christianity has since turned into a build-your-own religion & people, instead of recognizing the truth, seem to think the writings have been tampered with, however, you can easily verify this by looking up the originala found dating from the 1st & 2nd centuries & translating them yourself. They have not been changed. But people don't want to do all this, they just want to believe what they want to believe. Build-a-Jesus. One reviewer saying "too Catholic for my taste." Ha, The Shepherd of Hermas wasn't written for "your taste," it is an actual early Church writing, not a Fiction book or romance novel.

An interesting text, categorized by Danielou as a source of early Jewish Christianity. Many early Fathers, including Irenaeus of Lyons, considered it scripture. Some complained that it's "too Catholic". Well, that's what one finds when reading the Early Church, because the Early Church was Catholic. I give it 4 stars because it's not two books as titled, but one book, presented twice. It is the translation found in the Ante-Nicene Fathers series, even to the point of reproducing scanning errors made some 30 years ago when scans were put in the public domain.

only read one chapter

Great. Often mentioned in other books. Thought I d try the original. Glad I did.