Title: Save your money
Product review: What is most striking about this book is the author's failure to enter the world of the 4th century. As he seeks to make an historical narrative of the dramatic events of Athanasius'life he comes off as a 20th century Evangelical who describes Athanasius as giving "Bible studies" to the saints in Rome! Bible studies? Who uses such language in the 4th century. Athanasius encouraged asceticsim in Rome, not Protestant Bible studies. The narrative doesnt compel, intrigue or flow. Insight is nonexistent and it was painful to read the life of one of the Church's greats so poorly portrayed with so little effort to engage the reader with the actual thought of Athanasius--not Roman, Protestant or Eastern Orthodox, rather a church Father of the 4th century--long before there was a divided between the 3 great faiths of Christendom.
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