Writing as a Church of England clergyman who hoped to cool hostility between Anglicans and Roman Catholics, Tyler examines whether the early Church prayed to saints, angels and the Virgin Mary. He works through the Old and New Testaments and then the Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr and later writers century by century, setting out the evidence as he reads it.
A careful document of nineteenth-century Protestant and Catholic controversy over early Christian worship. Download the free EPUB.