American evangelicals are in the process of discovering patristics. Books, articles, large-scale projects of scripture commentary produced by evangelical publishers, growing numbers of courses offered and students who wish to take them demonstrate that serious study of the literary and intellectual life of early Christianity is slowly moving into current theological reflections of evangelicalism. By ‘serious study’ I am signaling a distinction from those contemporary readings of the early fathers which have tended to re-make them in the image of twentieth-century evangelicalism. In their own right then, the fathers are being heard as having relevant voices.