Ancient Christian Devotional Set
A Daily Prayer Guide with the Church Fathers
The Ancient Christian Devotional set offers deep spiritual nourishment by helping you to read the Scriptures with ancient eyes. Drawing on the words of the church fathers in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volumes, these daily guides bring the wisdom of the early church to your daily devotional practice.
What you'll find in the Ancient Christian Devotional set:
- Three beautifully crafted guides, each providing 52 weeks of readings that follow the weekly lectionary cycles A, B, and C.
- Flexible format to read sequentially throughout the year or by thematic interests.
- Daily opening and closing prayers drawn from the prayers and hymns of the ancient church.
Praise for the Set
"The Ancient Christian Devotional can serve as a good introduction for those with no exposure to these earliest teachers of the faith. And for those who have been using devotionals written more recently, this one will provide a distinct enough change that you will likely find yourself reading more slowly, reflecting more deeply, and wondering more fully."
—Critique, Issue 3, 2009
"A great resource for clergy of all denominations in preparing Sunday homilies or sermons. . . . Readers can use this to prepare for their Sunday worship or for daily prayer."
—Br. Benet Exton, OSB
"There are few books that appeal equally to the imagination and the professional interest of the scholar. [The Ancient Christian Devotional] is one such book. Scholars can benefit professionally from using such a devotional: it is profitable to see those historical figures that are the objects of our study as being erring, yet worshipping, humans like ourselves."
—John Reeve, Seminary Studies, Andrews University, Autumn 2008
"Read these devotions to prepare for Sunday services, to prepare to write your sermon, to learn from saints who have gone before. Mine them for sermon illustrations, encouragement for your own faith, and to sample the [Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture]."
—PJC, Liturgy, Hymnody, Pulpit Quarterly Book Review, Vol. 2, issue 4
About the Editors
Cindy Crosby
Cindy Crosby is a published author who has also served as coeditor for the three Ancient Christian Devotional volumes from InterVarsity Press.
Thomas C. Oden
Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016), was the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of Classic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. His books also include The African Memory of Mark, Early Libyan Christianity, and How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind. He was the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he also served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at the Graduate School and The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
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paperbackAncient Christian Devotional
Lectionary Cycle A
Ancient Christian Devotional Set
Edited by Cindy Crosby
General Editor Thomas C. OdenIn this inspiring devotional, commentary from our ancient church fathers accompanies weekly Scripture readings following cycle A of the Revised Common Lectionary. Cindy Crosby and Thomas C. Oden also provide brief biographies of the church fathers.
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paperbackAncient Christian Devotional
Lectionary Cycle C
Ancient Christian Devotional Set
Edited by Cindy Crosby
General Editor Thomas C. OdenA follow-up to the previous Ancient Christian Devotional, which follows lectionary cycle A, this devotional guide follows lectionary cycle C, which begins in Advent 2009. This guide to prayer and reflection combines excerpts from the writings of the church fathers as found in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture with a simple structure for daily or weekly reading and prayer.
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paperbackAncient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B
Ancient Christian Devotional Set
Edited by Cindy Crosby
General Editor Thomas C. OdenThis devotional guide combines excerpts from the writings of the church fathers as found in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture arranged in fifty-two weeks of readings following the weekly lectionary cycle B. Spend each day with God as you draw from the prayers and hymns of the ancient church.
