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Title: Early Christian Doctrine : Revised Edition by J. N. D. Kelly ISBN: 0-06-064334-X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 29 March, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Distillation
Comment: Kelly's book is an excellent distillation of what can be known of the development of the Doctrine of Christianity in the Roman World. It is too dense to be used as a first introduction, but as a review or a reference it is unequalled. Kelly leaves aside the oriental Christian writers, as do almost all western scholars, but that does not impinge on his usefulness for the normal theological course in western academics. Every serious student of early Christian Thought should own this book and read it until it falls to pieces.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Master Jesus
Comment: This book was ok but it does not take things like the Dead Sea Scrolls and other recently found secret documents into account. Nor does it take into account the Catholic Churches admitted policy of "ecclesiastical necessity" [acceptance of doctrines that will increase the churches size and power, rejection of those that would not]. What Jesus thought was so profoundly simple: "love thy neighbor; become as a child; do unto others as you would have them do unto you; abandon the vainglorious things of the world; seek the Kingdom of Heaven WITHIN; lift your consciousness to God in prayer and communion." All of the official decrees added century after century, council after council have eroded the true teachings of Christ. To get back to the basics read 'The Secret Doctrines of Jesus,' by H. Spencer Lewis, find out what the Roman Catholic Church has been hiding all these years. Walking in the footsteps of Jesus will bring us salvation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This is a marvelous treatment of a complicated subject, and I suspect few will be disappointed by Kelly's work. If you're reading this outside the academy or seminary, I would suggest a number of useful supplements: Cyril C. Richardson's "Early Christian Fathers" (ISBN 0684829517)an anthology of writings by Christian leaders primarily in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and Henry Chadwick's "The Early Church," (ISBN 0140231994) a very short treatment of the first five centuries of the Christian church, or W.H.C. Frend's longer, "The Rise of Christianity" (ISBN 0800619315).
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Title: The Early Church (Penguin History of the Church, 1) by Henry Chadwick ISBN: 0140231994 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol 1) by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan ISBN: 0226653714 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.31 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs by David W. Bercot ISBN: 1565633571 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.97 |
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Title: Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church by Stuart G. Hall ISBN: 0802806295 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Short History of Christian Doctrine: From the First Century to the Present by Bernhard Lohse, F. Ernest Stoeffer ISBN: 0800613414 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: September, 1978 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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