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by: Henry Chadwick See Larger Image List Price: $16.00 Our Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $6.95 Third Party New Price: $9.02 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 270 EAN: 9780140231991 ISBN: 0140231994 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: October 01, 1993 Publisher: Penguin Sales Rank: 37457 Studio: Penguin Related Items: The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics) Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church) Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Penguin Classics) Early Christian Doctrines Documents of the Christian Church see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centureis AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - An Admirable Effort One might suggest that any short one volume history of the early Church is doomed to failure based on the magnitude of the project. That being said, this book in my opinion is more successful in accomplishing its task than any other of its type that I have encountered. Henry Chadwick now in his late eighties has long been a fixture in British and North American intellectual circles. He is a theologian, churchman, and historian and is an ordained priest in the Episcopalian Church of England. This ... Read More Rating: - Understand The Names You Recognize! "The Early Church" provides the reader with an excellent history of the first six centuries of Christianity. Author Henry Chadwick covers structural and doctrinal development, along with the rise and fall of heresies and introductions to the leading characters of the period. This excellent book provides an overview of so many things which casual students of Church history probably heard of but may not have really understood. From my reading of this book I have a better understanding of ... Read More Rating: - Concise and interesting This is a great introduction to the early church. While it provided an interesting history, the stories of the early church leaders and martyrs also were inspirational. Reading about these early heros renewed my faith in what the Catholic Church is really about. Jesus did matter and is just as relevant today. Rating: - Concise, readable overview. In very few pages, the author manages to give an excellent recap of the key events and forces which shaped church history in the first 6 centuries. He goes into enough detail, howwever, that I'll bet even avid readers of church history will still find here material previously unknown to them. His organizing the material according to topics rather than by a strict chronological order makes it particularily easy to understand how the church grappled with its' earliest issues and crises. He does not seem ... Read More Rating: - A Cool and Reserved account of Early Church History "[Eusebius of Caesarea] was tempted to see evidence of the power of Christianity in its social or worldly triumphs, expressed in ... or in the adherence of distinguished intellectuals like Origen. Towards such triumphalist assumptions a 20th-century Christian is likely to be cool and reserved." H. Chadwick Chadwick's Integrity: This is what makes Chadwick's approach analytically reflective and more sound in his deductive interpretation than the famous first early Church ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Ancient - History - Subjects - Books - Rome Church History - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General Church History - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - Early Church Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General Religious Studies - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - Church & State