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H**N
Carefully Researched History of the Catholic Church
By reading a historical account of the church, we are able to more fully understand why the church is as it is today. This book, which I have only begun to read, is teaching me about the culture of the times and the direction of the church in its earliest stages of development. I am so glad that I bought a used copy of the book because I have a sense of history as I turn its worn pages, knowing that someone before me is also interested in discovering how the early church developed.
M**S
I've Read Worse
"Modern Scripture Scholars" is a code phrase for a group of so called scholars that decided to dump 2,000 years of teaching for doing things their own way. None the less this book actually contains a fairly entertaining description of what they have "deduced" actually happened in those first hundred hears of the Church. Just hold your nose and skip over those portions that confidently assert that Jesus didn't really say all those things the Bible said he did and that he didn't even know what was going to happen next.
A**R
Probably the best book written on the subject.
As a Pastoral Minister and Catechetical leader I have read many books on the Church over the years. I wish I would have read this book years ago. This is one of the foremost accounts of the early Christian/Catholic church. It was clear, consise and written with scholarly conviction. This book will be my primary reference when teaching Church history and Christology.
N**O
Four Stars
Very well written.
T**T
Loved the book through a class so much I bought it as a gift for another
Amazing book, be ready to open yourself to more possibilities than you were once taught or open to as a youth.
G**T
Five Stars
Arrived as expected
T**S
Best book I've read on early Christianity.
I've read several books about the historical Jesus and the early church. For me, this is the best. Einstein said that a good theory should be as simple as possible but no simpler. This book does a great job of presenting a coherent overview of how history and culture shaped the development of the first Christian communities without getting bogged down in every fact or conjecture. The author, a Catholic priest, is respectful of the belief in Jesus' divinity, but this does not bias his focus on how Christianity evolved from Judiasm. Both belivers and non-belivers should find this book insightful and compelling.
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