How Do We Know the Early Church? - Dr. William Marshner

In a presentation from the 2004 Deep in History conference, Church historian Dr. William Marshner explores the sources of information about the early church and used by early Christian historians. How did these early Christians learn and pass on the faith?
Dr. Marshner also shares a bit of his own experience exploring these questions of historical theology as a Lutheran before entering the Catholic Church.
The early centuries of the growth of Christianity (ca. A.D. 50-700) are a rich source for learning how the disciples and apostles of Jesus Christ passed on the “faith delivered once and for all to God’s holy ones” (Jud 3).
From Ignatius of Antioch in the early second century to Gregory the Great in the early seventh, the story of the Church’s proclamation in winning over pagan culture to Christ is widely diverse in practice, and wonderfully unified in doctrine.
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