Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1001649 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

Church of England Newspaper, 22/06/2007
"a splendid collection of engaging and readable
essays"
-Andrew Gregory

Customer Reviews

Well presented
There is, the old saying goes, nothing new under the sun. And this well-presented book reminds Christians of every persuasion that some of the basic orthodoxies of belief have been challenged since the beginning of the Church's history. It also provides a good check-list of whether your own christian beliefs - if you profess them - are in fact true to the Church's actual teachings.

The most famous heresis and disputes are examined here, and the arguments are clearly stated. The book's design is intelligent, too, enabling the reader to answer the questions that each particular heresy poses:

So grapple, if you are up to it, with such knotty issues as "Did Christ really suffer on the Cross at all?", "Was Christ human or divine?" "Are we predestined to be saved" etc etc. This is not just a dry book on ancient history, but startlingly relevent to the present, especially to a christian landscape over-run by the whole gimme prosperity prayers of evangelical US churches.