Knowing What Is True

Tertullian · John Jewel · John Henry Newman · Cyril of Jerusalem

Patristic West · Protestant · Catholic · Orthodox

Theme: Scripture and unity — the four-voice reader
Official publication: September 10, 2026
Kindle edition: on Amazon
Contents: 52 whole units from the four works — chapters, parts, and lectures, never fragments

Four writers, nineteen centuries, one question: how does the Christian know what is true? Whole chapters, whole parts, and whole lectures from each tradition, side by side — with a guide to where they agree, where they honestly differ, and a daily discipline for weighing the claims that reach you.

Kindle edition — on Amazon

Kindle edition sold by Amazon. The editorial apparatus — the four analyses, the comparison parts, and the glossary — was generated with large language models under our editorial method; every quotation was verified against the source editions, and no page reached print until a human editor accepted it.

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Whole chapters, whole parts, and whole lectures from four Resurrection Publishing editions: Tertullian's The Prescription Against Heretics (Bindley, 1914) printed entire — all forty-five chapters — John Jewel's An Apology of the Church of England (the Bacon/Jelf text; Part II, Part V, and the Recapitulation), John Henry Newman's An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (the 1878 edition; chapters I and V), and Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechetical Lectures (Gifford's translation; the Procatechesis and Lecture IV). Each unit is printed complete — never fragments.

The editorial layer — the prefaces, the four analyses, the comparison parts, and the glossary — was generated with large language models working under our editorial method, then verified quotation by quotation against the source editions. No page reached print until a human editor accepted it.

The four traditions do not secretly agree on everything, and the book does not pretend otherwise. Where they converge, it says so; where they differ, it sets the difference in each writer's own terms and leaves the weighing to you.

The four voices, whole

The complete editions behind the reader — for the writer whose voice you want all of:

The Prescription Against Heretics — Tertullian
An Apology of the Church of England — John Jewel
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine — John Henry Newman
The Catechetical Lectures — Cyril of Jerusalem

The question these four share