This time Athanasius Cyril of Jerusalem and Augustine, did they support Sola Scriptura?

Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host and we're in the midst of a conversation with Sean McAfee,

the author of Reform Yourself, among other books. Sean wrote a series of four articles for Catholic

answers magazine under the general banner when Protestants quote the

fathers against the church and when we're talking about the church fathers well

if you if you want to know more about them you can go to episode one in this conversation

And but when we're just generally when we're talking about the Church fathers we're talking about that period from immediately at the time of the apostles fathers were men like the

men like the Bishop of Rome Clement who knew the Apostles and were men like the Bishop of Rome

Clement who knew probably the Apostles Peter and Paul and became one of the first what we now call popes there in Rome and all the way up to men like John of Damascus who was a monk in the time of the Muslim conquest of Syria. He was a Syrian monk and so his father for

example was probably a Christian official who worked for a Muslim caliph there

in Damascus. So you get a sense of the sweep of history that happens

from Christ himself and and his apostles all the

challenge posed by the invasions of Muslims into North Africa and Asia.

These men were working out.

What is the truth that is revealed to us in the teaching and

traditions of the apostles handed on to us both through the life of the church and through the scripture written by and selected

by the church.

How do we understand these truths?

How do we understand the divinity of Christ?

How do we understand the role of Mary as Christ's mother? the helpful answers and it took a long time and it took Saints to do it.

So we're discussing some of those.

Last time we discussed Basil of Caesarea.

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