The founding fathers we never knew: and two announcements.(From The Editor)(Editorial)

Don't know much about history ... "So croons the popular song. And today, among the least-known figures of history are the early church fathers. But not only are such people as Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Basil the Great the originators of the church's founding doctrines (the Trinity, the two natures of Christ, and many others), they have much to teach us on that favorite Protestant subject: Bible study.

For the fathers (and mothers!) of our faith, Scripture was the Fountain--the source of everything that mattered. They studied the Hebrew Bible (though usually in Greek translation), along with the apostles' documents that would become the New Testament, with …