Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church
'[Edwards] demonstrates in an elucidating way the diversity and plurality of the theological thinking of early Christianity. [ - ] Edwards discovers a theological unity in places where it was previously not sought, namely in tenets and thinkers considered as heterodox. This original and intriguing study will certainly evoke much discussion in the research of early Christianity.' --Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses'Edwards's scholarship, extending across the whole period under investigation, is truly impressive, as is his theological 'razor' (if the expression be permitted), which rejects the defeatist modern tendency to split up early Christianity into innumerable 'hermetic and discordant ''Christianities'''... Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church can be recommended as a valuable and concise contribution to the study of early Christian doctrine and, more particularly, as a new attempt to appreciate the interrelationship between heresy and orthodoxy...' --Journal of Theological Studies