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The Trinity – How Not To Be a Heretic

Nov 22, 2020 | 2016 - Summer, Book Reviews, Free Summer 2016

The Trinity – How Not To Be a Heretic

Author Stephen Bullivant
Publisher Paulist Press/Alban Books £9.99
Format pbk
ISBN 0809149338

At the start of a new lectionary year, it can be useful to read through the whole gospel, accompanied by a short and simple guide. Harrington’s book is such a guide, taking the reader through many of Luke’s central themes and contrasting when appropriate with the other Gospels. Helpfully, the author demonstrates links with the Acts of the Apostles, seeing both books as two parts of the same work. As this is an introduction, I would have hoped for a fuller bibliography but there is a useful glossary of main terms used. If you are looking for a commentary to assist in sermon preparation, then you need to look elsewhere.  If you want an overview of the gospel and its relationship with other New Testament material then this is a good place to start.

CHRIS BRACEGIRDLE

Doctrine, History

 

Who were the Church Fathers?

Nov 21, 2020 | 2016 - Spring, Book Reviews, Free Spring 2016

Who were the
Church Fathers?

Author Marcellino D’Ambrosio
Publisher SPCK £12.99
Format pbk
ISBN 9780281074129

This is a wonderful book if you are interested in Church history. It spans the earliest days of the Church from 100AD and to c.749. It brings alive those great teachers of faith beginning with Clement and ending with John of Damascus. We read about the rise and fall of Arianism, Gnosticism and how the early Church suffered such great persecutions. It does challenge and inspire us to look again at those great thinkers who agreed the Nicene Creed, or helped define what goes in the Bible and what was left out. It was interesting to see that the words we use as the preface to the Eucharistic Prayer are so very similar to the words used in the third century by Hippolytus. It helps our understanding and knowledge of salvation, sacraments and doctrine. I would recommend this book, it blows away the cobwebs of dry theology and makes the early Church much easier to follow.

CHRIS GREGORY

History, Patristics

 

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