Friday, November 13th, 2009
I had to give back the early church history book I was neglecting as we have moved interstate. As you may know, this blog is also severly neglected. More on that later. I'll quickly note here some other chapters I covered.
In a climate where it was becoming more and more ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I can't say I know much about "Nero":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero apart from that he apparently played his fiddle while Rome burned. As far as early church history goes, he has the honour of being emperor in power when it became illegal to be a Christian in the Roman empire. There are ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
When I started this blog I was going to write something in it every week but I now see it's been almost a month since I managed to put fingers to keyboard. Alas, in this time I have read exactly one more chapter of _The First Christian Centuries_ so ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
I mentioned last week that I was going to read an introductory text on early church history. The book I was referring to was "Paul McKechnie, _The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church_,":http://www.amazon.com/First-Christian-Centuries-Perspectives-Church/dp/0830826777 (Illinois: InterVarsity Press: 2001) which I've borrowed from the good brothers at "The Society ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
I've decided to spend a bit of time in my current theological self education looking at early church history. I've borrowed an introductory text but before I open it, I thought I'd get down some ideas of my own with absolutely no references to speak of. Let's see if ...
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