The Basis of Early Christian Theism

A scholarly study traces how early Christian writers engaged arguments for the existence of God, contrasting classical Greek and Roman proofs with the perspectives of the Church Fathers. It surveys ontological, cosmological, teleological, and common-consent varieties of theistic reasoning, showing that patristic authors preferred practical, concrete forms suited to persuasion and pastoral needs while recognizing limits to purely speculative demonstration. The work examines how revelation, scriptural commitments, and inherited philosophical vocabularies interacted in patristic theology, and it concludes by outlining a more eclectic theism that synthesizes diverse arguments and methodological cautions.