Your heart. Pevtsov Konstantin Konstantinovich

The novel in three parts of the modern author from the very first pages immerses in the exciting whirlpool of the events of the ascetic life of Christians of the distant era of the II century. The reader will have to feel the atmosphere of an acute confrontation of the pagan world and the newly born church, its victorious testimony of truth. Against the backdrop of the realities of everyday life, the figures of teachers of the Church, the students of the Holy Apostle and the Evangelist John: the holy martyr Ignatius of the God -bearer and Polikarp of the Smirnsky, as well as the great theologian Irenaeus of Lyons, are especially clearly. The book breathes a living tradition of the church; The reader involuntarily begins to worry along with the heroes of the novel of their temptation, doubts, hope and firmness in standing for the truth even to death, learning what helped them, where they found strength to overcome all difficulties. Artistry, subtle historical observation, the depth of the author’s reasoning, his vision of the topic and thorough knowledge of the material make the book attractive to a wide range of readers, and the exalted examples of the life of Christians of the first centuries, and especially their pastors, touch the minds and strengthen faith.