Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Seventeen of the 33 men and women who have been declared Doctors of the Church lived in the first millennium. Eight of these came from the Eastern Church while nine were from the West. Somehow it seems appropriate that both the first and the last Doctors of the first millennium (St. Athanasius and St. John Damascene) were from the East, where Christianity began. John Fink has provided here brief profiles of the life of each Doctor followed by one or more writings characteristic of his work. No pretense is made that these short summaries of their lives are full biographies or that their writings are more than samples. This work is intended to be a popular introduction to the Church's great teachers.