:::::::I was quoting a full academic review that said: "Although the volume conveys some basic information on each topic, it assumes an understanding of the broader outline of church history in the first three centuries and in some cases requires a rather advanced knowledge," In other words the book does not give an overview, or tell the whole story, it assumes that the reader already knows the basic facts. A problem I have found with this Cambridge series before. One therefore has to read the comments in them in parallel with the basic facts gleaneed from elsewhere.