Through the Church Fathers

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  Through the Church Fathers: July 30 29.07.2026 12min

  Today’s readings press us toward evidence, attention, and wise action. Tertullian continues Against Marcion by arguing that a god with nothing to show for himself is no god at all; the Creator is known through His works, while Marcion’s supposed higher god has no creation, no witness, and no worthy ground for faith. Augustine then reflects on learning as a gathering of the mind, showing that thought is not merely receiving images through the senses, but collecting, ordering, and bringing forward truths already held within the memory. Aquinas closes by beginning the section on prudence, teaching that virtue needs more than good desire: it needs right reason applied to action, so that courage, mercy, correction, and generosity are carried out in the right way, at the right time, and for the right end. Together, these readings remind us that the true God is not without witness, the mind must be trained to gather truth carefully, and the good life requires wisdom in action.Today’s Readings:Tertullian — Against Marcion, Book 1, Chapters 11–12Augustine — The Confessions, Book 10, Chapter 11 (Section 18)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 47–48 (Prudence and Its Parts Combined)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ChurchFathers #Tertullian #Augustine #Aquinas #Marcion #Memory #Prudence #Theology #ThroughTheChurchFathers
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  Through the Church Fathers: October 4 04.10.2026 11min

  Augustine will not let us enjoy one another as if a human life were the happy ending. In On Christian Doctrine God alone is to be enjoyed; neighbor, self, and even the body are to be loved for His sake, and the soul that lords it over its equals has already begun to hate itself. Then in The Confessions he hunts the past and the future and finds them only as present: childhood is gone, yet its image is here in memory; tomorrow’s deed is not yet, yet the thought of it is now.### Today’s Readings:Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 20–23 (Sections 19–23)Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 18 (Section 23)---### Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ChurchFathers #Augustine #OnChristianDoctrine #Confessions #LoveOfGod #Time #Memory #Theology #EarlyChurch
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  Through the Church Fathers: October 3 03.10.2026 12min

  The Word did not empty Himself into sound and vanish. Augustine says the thought stays whole while it becomes speech—and so the Divine Word became flesh without change of nature, healer and medicine in one. Pride had wounded us; humility bound the wound. On Christian Doctrine then follows that medicine all the way home: resurrection and judgment, a Church purged by affliction, keys that bind and loose, a body that dies and will rise. The Confessions will not let the past and future be dismissed as nothing: if prophets saw what is not yet, and memory tells what no longer is, those times are somewhere. Aquinas names the disease under the bandage. Pride is the refusal of measure—the will to be uncorrectable.### Today’s Readings:Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 13–21 (Sections 13–19)Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 17 (Section 22)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Question 162 (Pride)---### Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ChurchFathers #Augustine #OnChristianDoctrine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Pride #Incarnation #Resurrection #Theology #EarlyChurch
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  Through the Church Fathers: October 2 02.10.2026 11min

  Men already know, even when they worship the wrong things, that God is that than which nothing greater can be thought—and Augustine will not stop until that God is unchangeable Wisdom, then the Way who came in flesh. On Christian Doctrine takes us from the name “God” to the Incarnation: Wisdom was already our home, and still made Himself the road home. The Confessions then asks how we measure time at all, and answers that we only measure what is passing; the past cannot be measured, because it is not. Aquinas closes the day with humility: not pretending you have no gifts, but refusing to claim a greatness that is not yours.### Today’s Readings:Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 7–12 (Sections 7–12)Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 16 (Section 21)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Question 161 (Humility)---### Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ChurchFathers #Augustine #OnChristianDoctrine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Humility #Wisdom #Incarnation #Theology #EarlyChurch
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  Through the Church Fathers: October 1 01.10.2026 14min

  Augustine opens On Christian Doctrine by splitting the whole work of Christian teaching in two: find what Scripture means, then give that meaning away—and he will not let the Church rest in the world as if the road were home. The same mind then turns inward in The Confessions and takes the present apart until “now” has no space left at all. Aquinas gathers the day with a quieter virtue: modesty, the part of temperance that puts measure not only on fierce desire, but on speech, study, recreation, dress, and the ordinary habit of knowing when enough is enough.Today’s Readings:Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 1–6 (Sections 1–6)Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 15 (Section 20)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Question 160 (Modesty)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ChurchFathers #Augustine #OnChristianDoctrine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Modesty #Temperance #Theology #EarlyChurch
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 29 29.09.2026 17min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionHow do we distinguish the true voice of Scripture from those who twist it, and how do we hold both firm judgment and restrained passion in the same heart? In today’s readings, Vincent of Lérins shows that heretics always appeal to the Bible, wrapping their errors in its language the way a wolf puts on sheep’s clothing, and he gives the Church the rule of universality, antiquity, and consent by which such deceptions are exposed. Thomas Aquinas then examines the virtues of clemency and meekness—one moderating the severity of punishment, the other restraining the passion of anger—while distinguishing the ordered anger that serves justice from the disordered anger that destroys it. Finally, Augustine turns inward to the mystery of time itself, asking how we can call any time “long” when the past no longer exists and the future is not yet, and discovering that only the fleeting present can bear the weight of duration. Today’s Readings:Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 25–28 (Sections 64–75) Augustine — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 15 (Section 18) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 157–158 (Clemency, Meekness, and Anger)---Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitory #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Clemency #Meekness #Anger #Scripture #Heresy
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 28 28.09.2026 18min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionWhat happens when even the most gifted teachers fall into error? In these chapters of the Commonitory, Vincent of Lérins holds up Tertullian as a sobering example and then lays down the marks of a true Catholic: one who loves the Church more than any individual teacher and guards the sacred deposit without addition or alteration. He insists that real progress in the faith is growth, not change—wheat remaining wheat. Alongside him, Augustine wrestles with the mystery of time itself, and Aquinas distinguishes continence from temperance, showing the firm resistance of the will against strong disordered desires.Readings: Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 18–24 (Sections 46–63) Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 14 (Section 17) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 155–156 (Continence and Incontinence)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitorium #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #RuleOfFaith #Continence
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 27 27.09.2026 16min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionHow carefully must the Church confess the unity of Christ’s Person from the very moment of His conception? In these chapters of the Commonitory, Vincent of Lérins defends the title Theotokos—Mother of God—and sets the Catholic faith against the errors of Photinus, Apollinaris, and Nestorius. He then turns to the sobering example of Origen, whose extraordinary gifts became a great trial for the Church when novelty entered through a trusted teacher. Alongside him, Augustine contemplates the eternal present of God that stands above all time, and Aquinas examines the vice of lust and its various species that disorder the sexual appetite against the rule of reason.Readings: Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 15–17 (Sections 40–45) Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 13 (Section 16) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 153–154 (Lust and Its Species)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitorium #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Theotokos #Incarnation #Lust
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 26 26.09.2026 18min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionHow does the Church confess one Christ in two natures without falling into the errors that divide Him or diminish Him? In these chapters of the Commonitory, Vincent of Lérins carefully sets forth the Catholic faith against Photinus, Apollinaris, and Nestorius, showing that the Church worships one Godhead in the Trinity and confesses one Christ who is truly God and truly man. Alongside him, Augustine contemplates the eternal present of God that stands above all time, and Aquinas teaches the virtues of chastity and virginity that order the strongest of the bodily desires under the rule of reason and for the sake of God.Readings: Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 12–14 (Sections 32–39) Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 13 (Section 16) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 151–152 (Chastity and Virginity)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitorium #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Incarnation #Chastity #Virginity
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 25 25.09.2026 14min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionPaul’s warning still stands for every age: if anyone preaches a gospel other than the one already received, let him be accursed. In these chapters of the Commonitory, Vincent of Lérins presses the point home—neither time, nor place, nor the reputation of a teacher can justify altering the faith once delivered. He shows why God sometimes permits even distinguished men to introduce novelty: so that the love of His people may be tested. Alongside him, Augustine answers the question of what God was doing before creation by reminding us that time itself is a creature, and Aquinas teaches the virtue of sobriety that keeps the mind clear under the rule of reason.Readings: Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 9–11 (Sections 24–31) Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 13 (Section 15) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 149–150 (Sobriety and Drunkenness)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitorium #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #RuleOfFaith #Sobriety
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 24 24.09.2026 14min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionWhen novelty rises in the Church, what must we do? Vincent of Lérins shows us the steadfast example of Pope Stephen, who answered the push for rebaptism with a simple rule: “Let there be no innovation—only what has been handed down.” In these chapters he defends the ancient faith against the danger of new teachings, warning that even gifted and persuasive error must fall when it departs from what the Church has always received. Alongside him, Augustine refuses the mocking answer to the question of what God was doing before creation, and Aquinas teaches us how abstinence, fasting, and the vice of gluttony order the desires of the body under the rule of reason.Readings: Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 6–8 (Sections 15–22) Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 12 (Section 14) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 146–148 (Abstinence, Fasting, and Gluttony)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitorium #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #RuleOfFaith #Abstinence #Fasting
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 23 23.09.2026 16min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionHow do we hold the faith when new teachings press in from every side? Vincent of Lérins gives us a clear and enduring rule: what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all. In these opening chapters of the Commonitory, he shows why Scripture must be read with the Church, why novelty is dangerous, and how the ancient faith once rescued the Church from the storm of Arianism. Alongside him, Augustine lifts our eyes to the eternity of God that stands outside of time, and Aquinas teaches us how shamefacedness and honesty guard the beauty of a temperate life.Readings: Vincent of Lérins — The Commonitory, Chapters 1–5 (Sections 1–14) Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 11 (Section 13) Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 144–145 (Shamefacedness and Honesty)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #VincentOfLerins #Commonitorium #Augustine #Confessions #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #RuleOfFaith #Temperance
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 22 22.09.2026 14min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionTemperance is the virtue that keeps the strongest bodily desires under the rule of reason. In these questions from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, he shows why the pleasures of food, drink, and sexual union need a special virtue to moderate them. Temperance is a cardinal virtue because these desires most powerfully resist the good of the soul. Intemperance exceeds the measure of reason; insensibility falls short of it. The virtue itself is one, yet it has many parts—shame and honesty, abstinence and chastity, and other related strengths—by which the whole life of desire is ordered according to reason.Readings: Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 141–143 (Temperance, the Vices Opposed to It, and Its Parts)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org #ThroughTheChurchFathers #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Temperance #Virtue #CardinalVirtues
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 21 21.09.2026 11min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionTemperance is the virtue that keeps the strongest bodily desires under the rule of reason. In this question from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, he shows why the pleasures of food, drink, and sexual union need a special virtue to moderate them. Temperance is a cardinal virtue because these desires most powerfully resist the good of the soul. It does not destroy desire, but holds it within the measure that reason determines, so that the soul remains free for higher goods.Readings: Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Question 141 (Temperance)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Temperance #Virtue #CardinalVirtues
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 20 20.09.2026 12min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionThe Christian life requires more than a good beginning. In these questions from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, he shows how patience preserves the soul under present hardship, how perseverance carries a good work to its proper end, and how the gift of fortitude strengthens us beyond ordinary human measure by the Holy Spirit. Softness abandons the work too soon; stubbornness refuses to yield when reason requires change. The precepts of fortitude command us to stand firm in the truth and to endure to the end. Together these virtues and the Spirit’s gift keep the soul steady until the work is finished.Readings: Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 136–140 (Patience, Perseverance, the Gift of Fortitude, and the Precepts of Fortitude)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Patience #Perseverance #Fortitude #Virtue
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 19 19.09.2026 13min

  Today’s Readings Podcast DescriptionPatience and perseverance strengthen the soul for the long work of the Christian life. In these questions from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, he shows that patience preserves us from being disordered by present hardship, while perseverance enables us to continue a good work until it is rightly completed. Softness abandons the task too soon; stubbornness refuses to yield when reason requires a change. Together these virtues keep the soul steady under both suffering and the passage of time.Readings: Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 136–137 (Patience and Perseverance)Explore the Project: Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpatton Credo Courses – https://www.credocourses.com Credo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ThroughTheChurchFathers #ThomasAquinas #SummaTheologica #Patience #Perseverance #Virtue
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 18 18.09.2026 13min

  Vindication, the eternal Word, and the wise use of great resources come together in today’s readings. Athanasius presents further evidence that the charges against him had collapsed: Constantine condemns the Meletians for accusing him of murdering men who were still alive, Arsenius seeks peace and communion with the Catholic Church, and John is praised for abandoning division and reconciling with Athanasius. Augustine then reflects on the coeternal Word through whom God speaks all things at once and forever, while the created things brought forth by that Word arise in time rather than sharing God’s eternity. Aquinas closes by explaining magnificence as the virtue that completes great works through expenditure proportionate to their worth, while meanness damages those works by making the saving of money more important than their proper completion. Together, these readings show that truth brings hidden schemes into the light, creation rests in the eternal Word, and great works require both generosity and judgment.Today’s Readings:Athanasius — Defense Against the Arians, Part 2, Chapter 5, Sections 68–70Augustine — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 7 (Section 9)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 134–135 (Questions Combined)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ChurchFathers #Athanasius #Augustine #ThomasAquinas #EternalWord #Creation #Magnificence #ChristianVirtue #ChurchHistory #ChristianTheology
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 17 17.09.2026 15min

  Here is the podcast description for the latest three readings:False testimony, the mystery of creation, and the danger of distorted greatness come together in today’s readings. Athanasius records how Ischyras admitted that the accusations against him had been forced and fabricated, while the supposed murder victim Arsenius was eventually discovered alive, exposing the conspiracy and disgracing those who had spread the charge. Augustine then asks how God created the world, concluding that creation did not come through a temporary, passing sound, but through the eternal Word who remains forever. Aquinas closes by examining the vices surrounding magnanimity: presumption reaches beyond one’s true capacity, ambition seeks honor wrongly, vainglory lives for empty praise, and pusillanimity refuses the great good one is genuinely equipped to accomplish. Together, these readings show that truth outlasts slander, creation rests in the eternal Word, and genuine greatness requires an honest judgment of both our limits and our gifts.Today’s Readings:Athanasius — Defense Against the Arians, Part 2, Chapter 5, Sections 64–67Augustine — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 6 (Section 8)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 130–133 (Questions Combined)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ChurchFathers #Athanasius #Augustine #ThomasAquinas #Creation #EternalWord #Magnanimity #Vainglory #ChurchHistory #ChristianTheology
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 16 16.09.2026 14min

  False accusations, creation, and greatness of soul come together in today’s readings. Athanasius recounts how Eusebius and the Meletians manufactured charges against him, only to see those accusations collapse before Constantine, who then condemned factionalism, envy, and ambition within the Church while affirming Athanasius as a man of God. Augustine turns to the mystery of creation and asks how God made heaven and earth, concluding that God did not work from preexisting matter or within an already existing place, but spoke all things into being through His eternal Word. Aquinas then explains the virtues connected to fortitude, especially magnanimity—the greatness of soul by which a person truthfully recognizes God-given ability and undertakes great works without falling into pride, presumption, or false humility. Together, these readings show how envy tears down, divine power creates from nothing, and true greatness faithfully uses what God has given.Today’s Readings:Athanasius — Defense Against the Arians, Part 2, Chapter 5, Sections 60–62Augustine — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 5 (Section 7)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 128–129 (Questions Combined)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ChurchFathers #Athanasius #Augustine #ThomasAquinas #Creation #Magnanimity #Fortitude #Arianism #ChurchHistory #ChristianTheology
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  Through the Church Fathers: September 15 15.09.2026 13min

  False accusations, the search for truth, and the discipline of courage come together in today’s readings. Athanasius preserves the remarkable recantation of Ursacius and Valens, who admit that their charges against him were fabricated, renounce Arianism, and seek communion with the man they had helped condemn. He then begins tracing the controversy back to its roots in the Meletian schism and the alliance formed between the Meletians and the Arian party. Augustine turns to the opening words of Genesis and asks how he can know that Moses spoke truth, concluding that eternal Truth speaks inwardly beyond Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, while heaven and earth themselves testify that they were created by God. Aquinas then explains how fortitude governs both fear and daring, avoiding not only cowardice but also foolish fearlessness and reckless boldness. Together, these readings remind us that truth may be distorted by conspiracy, discovered through divine illumination, and defended only when fear and confidence are both ruled by reason.Today’s Readings:Athanasius — Defense Against the Arians, The Recantation of Ursacius and Valens; Part 2, Chapter 5, Section 59Augustine — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapters 3–4 (Sections 5–6)Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 125–127 (Questions Combined)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Courses – https://www.credocourses.comCredo Ministries – https://www.credoministries.org#ChurchFathers #Athanasius #Augustine #ThomasAquinas #Arianism #Genesis #Creation #Fortitude #ChristianCourage #ChurchHistory