Digital Logos Edition
Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncles, and scrapbooks of photos thrown in. Someone needs to point out what’s important and remind you of the facts as you learn to tell the story on your own. The Pocket Dictionary of Church History is designed to help students identify the people, places, events, movements, and ideas that checker the story of the church through the ages. Here is an indispensable glossary, the perfect companion to your study and reading of church history.
“Nero, Claudius (a.d. 37–68). Nero was emperor of Rome from a.d. 54” (Page 102)
“original sin is not a sound biblical doctrine and that the human will is completely free to choose either good or evil” (Page 112)
“The orthodox view, championed by *Athanasius, held that Christ was homoousios, of the same ‘substance’ as the Father.” (Page 16)
“because the nominalist holds that the universal is merely a concept of the human mind” (Page 118)
“This major rift in Roman Catholic church unity was called the Great Schism” (Page 68)