There were theologians before Calvin?

Mark Lauterbach reports on some reading he had been doing lately:

In the providence of God my reading has been taking me back into multiple examples of the early centuries of the church. Here was a huge gap in my education. I have three books by these early fathers on my shelf. But I am now reading Athanasius on The Incarnation plus multiple excerpts from the fathers in defense of the Trinity and the union of God and man in the person of Jesus the Messiah. I am seeing some truths spoken in a way that is fabulous and I am wondering why I have missed these. Up til now I guess my view of church history has been something like this: PAUL (1500 year gap following) . . . Luther, Calvin . . . . Edwards . . . various Reformed writers . . . Warfield, Machen . . . Piper. I act as though the men of the first centuries did not do much!

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