A history of the doctrines of the Early Church, written and arranged with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar. Canon Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, from the end of the apostolic age to the council of Chalcedon. His book thus covers the great doctrinally creative period in the Church's history, the centuries in which there was a constant upsurge of fresh ideas before the settled formalism of both East and West. He gives the student an invaluable outline of Church history and patrology against which to place the evolving theological doctrines that he summarises and expounds.
In this latest (5th) edition, the author makes extensive revisions and modifications to the text, updates the select biographies, and adds a new chapter on Mary and the Saints.
In this latest (5th) edition, the author makes extensive revisions and modifications to the text, updates the select biographies, and adds a new chapter on Mary and the Saints.