Book Description: Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, preeminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. The book is published by Yale University Press.