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Title: Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up: A New Look at Today's Evangelical Church in the Light of Early Christianity by David W. Bercot ISBN: 0-924722-00-2 Publisher: Scroll Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.63 (38 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Engrossing First Half, But Spotty in Places
Comment: David Bercot has written a book that grabs your attention from the start and make Christians of any bent ask how their life compares with the non-Christian world. Bercot discusses early Christian views of entertainment and war. He concludes that the early Christians would have never approved of many movies that are produced today nor would they have gone to war to fight for their country, though it appears that some early believers did remain in the army after baptism, but evidently refused to take up arms against enemy nations. One weakness to Bercot's book, however, is that his arguments are condensed and he sometimes fail to examine the context of a given utterance made by a certain church father. Thus, he does not discern that the idolatrous nature of the Roman army also played a part in early Christian pacifism as well as the way Christians exegeted Isa 2:1-4. All in all, Bercot's book is a nice read. Just don't depend on it for serious historical analyses or in-depth and rigorous documented accounts.
Rating: 4
Summary: For the most part really good...
Comment: As a former protestant, I found this book quite interesting in that it addresses many of the issues I wrestled with for a long time (especially why most protestants support the death penalty), and specifically calls protestants to look at their beliefs and behaviours as compared to those of early Christians...those from 33 AD - 300 AD. (Not that I don't think that Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians couldn't do the same comparisons in many ways, but this book addresses many of the problems unique to protestantism.)
Bercot points to the fragmented nature of the protestant church (thousands upon thousands of denominations), and how theology changes and shifts from generation to generation, and he has some extremely valid points when speaking about things like Baptism (its sacramental nature isn't merely an empty symbol.) I think both protestants and non-protestants (especially in the United States) could profit from this book, because it will help various groups figure out where each other are in some ways.
My major complaint is that he makes no mention of the Orthodox Church. He references Roman Catholicism some as pertaining to the Protestant Reformation, but totally ignores the Christian East. Since protestantism grew out of Roman Catholicism this makes sense, but to not comment on Orthodoxy at all seems strange given the fact that many of the early Church Fathers he quotes from are from the East...land which are Orthodox today.
Its easy to read and is straightforward, yet there's enough substance there to chew on.
Rating: 5
Summary: Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up: A New Look at Today'
Comment: Praise God! This book really made me think about True Holiness and what it really means! I go to an Apostolic church where everyone believes in being Holy- without no man shall see God! Emphasis is put on being separate from the world in almost every aspect. After reading this book I feel that we(church) are so far from "True Holiness" in light of the early Christians. We say we don't love the world or the things in the world. We say we have the lifestyle of a christians, but after reading this book, I will have to evaluate everything I'm doing..."Ouch and Amen" is all I have to say! I highly recommend everyone, especially Christians, to read this book!
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Title: A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs by David W. Bercot ISBN: 1565633571 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.97 |
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Title: Common Sense: A New Approach to Understanding Scripture. by David W. Bercot ISBN: 0924722061 Publisher: Scroll Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Kingdom that Turned the World Upside Down by David W. Bercot ISBN: 0924722177 Publisher: Scroll Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church by Stuart G. Hall ISBN: 0802806295 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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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 Pub. Date: 01 November, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.31 |
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