A History of Christian Thought Volume II: From Augustine to the Eve of the Reformation: 002

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Format All Paperback Hardback Audio. Filter your search Filter by categories. Showing 1 to 30 of results. Story of Christianity Volume 2: Essential Theological Terms Justo L. Church History Justo L. History of Christian Thought: From Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon v.

I was first introduced to this text in my graduate studies, but would feel comfortable working through the text with anyone at a college level or up. Christian Thought is a necessary text that every seminarian and lay person needs to have on their book shelf. It would not hurt journalists who cover religious issues either. This text does not take any particular bent favoring one demonimation or another, it only describes the chain of events, the actors, and their rational for advancing their particular school's theological thinking discussing the Trinity and Christology.

It also demonstrates that the Council of Nicea was in fact an unsettling but pivitol event in the history of the christian church.

Clearly, issues of the Western and Eastern churches are illuminated and one discovers the clear difference between the two camps that in some cases are driven by the Roman Emporers. While not a novel, and intended to be a text book, it does however, read like a novel with political and spiritual intrigue that make one want to move on to the next chapter. Excellent, well written and easy reading for layiety and pastoral communites alike.

This series of books does an excellent job of laying out the issues that confronted Christianity during the first few hundred years. Gonzalez writes in a very accessible style, and tries to keep the technical language to a minimum. No matter what your exposure to the issues, this book provides an excellent summary and introduction, and is one that I recommend to friends who need a basic grounding in eary Christian thought.

Gonzalez presents a generally balanced view, though it seems that the "orthodox" position is generally portrayed in the best light in most cases, though not to such an extent that the book is heavily biased.

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Overall, an excellent introduction and summary. I strongly recommend it. A nice overview of Christian thought. Material is very condensed and can make your head spin a bit in trying to keep up with the terminology. But I now have a greater appreciation for early Christian history.

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An excellent academic treatise on the formation on early first century Christian thought--not dogma or doctrine. Especially liked the break down of te Apostolic Fathers.

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He is one of the few first generation Latino theologians to come from a Protestant background. Other books in the series. A History of Christian Thought 3 books.

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