A History of Christian Doctrine: In Succession to the Earlier Work of G.P. Fisher, Published in the International Theological Library Series

by Hubert Cunliffe-Jones

Book Overview

In this classic volume Professor Cunliffe-Jones has brought together a team of experts in various periods to create this comprehensive survey of the field. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800606264
• ISBN13: 9780800606268
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 601 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very Comprehensive, But Perhaps Biased

It is difficult to write a history of the entire 2000 years of Christian doctrine in one volume, but the authors of this tome have attempted to do this. A great deal of information is packed into just one volume. The cited authors believe that predestination in the early centuries of the church was not fully developed nor appreciated owing to fears that it would give credence to pagan fatalism and to Manicheism. The Roman Catholic belief that the Eucharist is an actual sacrificial representation of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, and that the Communion elements are transformed into the actual Body and Blood of Christ, is portrayed as something that developed gradually in the first few centuries of the church. The "realism" of the church fathers concerning Communion is not taken as something that implies Transubstantiation; something which Roman Catholic scholars would disagree with. Finally, and in this reviewer's opinion, this book gives undue credence to the rationalists and liberal theologians.

Excellent Overview

Provides an excellent overview of the subject matter: very useful