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Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers: An Interview with Gerald Bray

April 24th, 2026 | 10 min read

By Nadya Williams

One consistently important practice for Christians since the early days of the church has been Bible reading. So how did they read the Bible? And how might knowing more about their varied approaches to interpreting God’s Word help us as students of the Bible today? In his new book, Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers: How to Interpret, Teach, and Preach Like the Early Christians, church historian and theologian Gerald Bray answers these questions through ten in-depth studies.

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.