God Encountered: The Revelation of the Glory/the Genealogy of Depravity: Morality and Immorality

From back cover: Heroic as its Martyrs were, the early Church was not naive. It realized that sin dwelt in the members of Christ's Body; the saints were far from perfect. Next, the Church of the Doctors and the Councils, and, in due time, the Church of the Empires East and West knew that the Gospel's reception as Christendom's rule of life had come at a price.