Publication

1999-04-01 - InterVarsity Press

Language

English

Word Count

163,000 words, Guess

Page Count

652 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8184776M
  • ISBN-139780830815050
  • ISBN-100830815058
  • OCLC Control Number40762786
  • Library of Congress Control Number99018734
and 2 more
  • LibraryThing46553
  • Goodreads765527

Classifications

  • LCCBT21.2 .O57 1999

Description

"In this panoramic work of historical theology, theologian Roger Olson vividly recounts the deeds and words of the cultists and Apostolic Fathers of the second century, the clash between the monumental theological schools of Alexandria and Antioch, the epochal division between East and West, the revolutionary advent of the Reformation, and much more - right on up to the sometimes dazzling, sometimes dismaying fallout that has continued to shake Christians through the twentieth century. Through it all Olson detects and traces a common thread: a concern for salvation, God's redemptive activity in forgiving and transforming sinful human beings."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The main troublers of apostolic Christianity in the second century were the Gnostics, Montanus and the Montanists, and the anti-Christian orator Celsus.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & ReformHardcoverInterVarsity Press1999-04-01

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