Did the Fathers Teach Sola Fide?

Chivalric Apologetics

I had a short discussion with atheist apologist Gary from Escaping Christian Fundamentalism. He was going about asking evangelicals to name one Church Father who taught justification via imputation of Christ’s righteousness by faith alone, commonly shortened to Justification by Faith Alone. The Protestants were unresponsive. However, apparently some Protestant apologists have attempted to answer this question. Today I am going to answer the Fathers whom Protestant apologist Matt Slick has brought up here. I had never heard that surname before, so I looked it up. Slick is apparently a surname first found in Essex, England, where Walter Sleh was listed in the Feet of Fines in 1219. As the name implies, it refers to skillful men, cunning of hand, although it did not have as negative a connotation as nowadays. I am sure he is a somewhat skillful and clever apologist—evidently more qualified than I. Still, the…

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