Posts filed under 'Patristic Christianity'

Book Review: Signs and Wonders

1 comment March 28th, 2009 at 07:32am Albert McIlhenny

Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols – Mike Aquilina
Our Sunday Visitor (September 15, 2008)
Topic: Patristic Christianity; Christian Culture
Summary: A guide to early Christian symbols
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: Great in Theory, Flawed in Execution

1 comment October 9th, 2008 at 02:09pm Albert McIlhenny

A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More Than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers – David W. Bercot, Editor
Hendrickson Publishers (July 1998)
Topic: Patristic Christianity; Reference
Summary: Dictionary of ante-Nicene beliefs
Rating:
3stars

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Book Review: Mary and the Development of Doctrine

Add comment March 8th, 2008 at 06:14pm Albert McIlhenny

Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought – Luigi Gambero
Ignatius Press (April 1999)
Topic: Communion of Saints; Patrisitic Christianity; Catholicism
Summary: Survey of beliefs concerning Mary in the patristic writings
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom

1 comment February 24th, 2008 at 04:58pm Albert McIlhenny

The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal, Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries – Rodney Stark
HarperOne (June 1997)
Topic: Church History; Patristic Christianity; Christian Culture
Summary: Sociological investigation on the rise of the Church in the Roman Empire
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: The Heavens Above and the Earth Below

Add comment December 10th, 2006 at 10:34pm Albert McIlhenny

Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity – Charles E. Hill
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (April 2001)
Topic: Eschatology; Patristic Christianity
Summary: Exposition on the introduction of chiliasm in patristic thought
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: Looking to the Past

Add comment December 6th, 2006 at 08:31pm Albert McIlhenny

The Free Church & the Early Church: Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide – D. H. Williams (Editor)
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (September 2002)
Topic: Bibliology, Hermeneutics, & Exegesis; Protestantism; Patristic Christianity
Summary: Essays comparing the beliefs of the early Church with those of free church Protestants
Rating:
4stars

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Book Review: The Church and Her Doctrine – the Patristic Era

Add comment November 16th, 2006 at 01:13pm Albert McIlhenny

The Christian Tradition (A History of the Development of Doctrine), Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100 – 600) – Jaroslav Pelikan
University Of Chicago Press; New Ed edition (August 1975)
Topic: Patristic Christianity; Church History
Summary: History of the development of the Catholic Tradition in the Patristic era.
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: The Scriptures of the Early Heterodox

Add comment August 25th, 2006 at 07:45pm Albert McIlhenny

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament – Bart D. Ehrman
Oxford University Press (September 2005)
Topic: Patristic Christianity
Summary: Translation of texts that were rejected by the ancient Church as canonical
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: The Struggles for the Faith

Add comment August 20th, 2006 at 07:45am Albert McIlhenny

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew – Bart D. Ehrman
Oxford University Press (October 2003)
Topic: Patristic Christianity
Summary: Account of the early struggles within Christianity and the emergence of orthodoxy
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: Faith of Our Fathers

Add comment July 8th, 2006 at 11:28am Albert McIlhenny

The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers – Mike Aquilina
Our Sunday Visitor (March 1999)
Topic: Patristic Christianity
Summary: Selection of writings of the Church Fathers with introductions
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: We Too Are a Religious People

Add comment June 18th, 2006 at 05:05pm Albert McIlhenny

The Christians as the Romans Saw Them – Robert Louis Wilken
Yale University Press (April 2003)
Topic: Patristic Christianity
Summary: View of the Christian faith from prominent critics within the Roman Empire
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦ (Essential)

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Book Review: Back to the Future

Add comment February 28th, 2006 at 10:50am Albert McIlhenny

The Teachings of the Church Fathers – John R. Willis (Editor)
Ignatius Press (October 2002)
Topic: Patristic Christianity; Catholicism
Summary: Quotes from the Church Fathers in support of Catholic doctrine arranged by subject
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: Reinventing the Fathers

Add comment October 26th, 2005 at 10:40pm Albert McIlhenny

Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up: A New Look at Today’s Evangelical Church in the Light of Early Christianity – David W.Bercot
Scroll Publishing Company (February 1989)
Topic: Patristic Christianity; Protestantism
Summary: Comparison of modern Evangelicalism and early Christian beliefs
Rating:
2stars

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Book Review: Lift Up Your Hearts

1 comment October 25th, 2005 at 12:50am Albert McIlhenny

The Mass of the Early Christians – Mike Aquilina
Our Sunday Visitor (April 2001)
Topic: Liturgy & Sacraments; Patristic Christianity
Summary: Examination of the liturgy of the early Christians
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: A Challenge to the Evangelical Mind

Add comment October 21st, 2005 at 03:46pm Albert McIlhenny

Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants - D. H. Williams
William B. Eerdmans Publishing (October 1999)
Topics: Bibilology, Hermeneutics, & Exegesis; Protestantism; Patristic Christianity
Summary: Renewal of Evangelical Protestantism through an appreciation of the Church Fathers
Rating:
5stars

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Book Review: Best Place to Start

Add comment October 20th, 2005 at 12:33am Albert McIlhenny

The Early Church – Henry Chadwick
Penguin (1993)
Topic: Church History; Patrisitic Christianity
Summary: Overview of the history of the Church in the patristic period
Rating: 5stars

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