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November 25, 2004
Reading the doc, part III
At the outset of Leviticus, I had the option of switching to a book Andy mailed me, The Story of Christianity: Volume 1. The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, by Justo L. Gonzalez. Leviticus starts by describing how to make burnt offerings, and feels kind of repetitive in the beginning, so I switched.
Gonzalez's book is interesting from the beginning, but I found Chapter 9, "The Teachers of the Church," especially good. Gonzalez writes about the work of Irenaeus of Lyons, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian of Carthage, and Origen of Alexandria. All address the whole body of Christian doctrine with somewhat different approaches.
Posted by Mark at November 25, 2004 09:14 PM