Product Description

Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncles and scrapbooks of photos thrown in. Someone needs to point out what's important and remind you of the facts as you learn to tell the story on your own. The Pocket Dictionary of Church History is designed to help students identify the people, places, events, movements and ideas that checker the story of the church through the ages. Among the three-hundred-plus definitions you'll find

* terms, from ad fontes to via media

* leaders and theologians, from Abelard to Zwingli

* "isms," from Arminianism to Unitarianism

* places and events, from the Azusa Street Mission to The White Horse Inn

* councils, from Nicea to Vatican II Here is an indispensable glossary, the perfect companion to your study and reading of church history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #534980 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 151 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780830827039
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Nathan Feldmeth is associate dean for extended education and assistant professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has contributed articles to InterVarsity Press's New Dictionary of Theology, Dictionary of Christianity in America and Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters.

Customer Reviews

An ideal quick reference
With two thousand years under its belt, Christianity has created quite the history for itself. "Pocket Dictionary of Church History" is a comprehensive solid reference to well over three hundred terms that the Church frequently uses, with their definitions and their history. Leaders, sects, places, and more are covered, making "Pocket Dictionary of Church History" an ideal quick reference.