The Story of Christian Theology
Subtitle: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780830815050
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal; Theology (General); Religion - Theology; Religion; Theology; Christianity - General; History
First sentence: The main troublers of apostolic Christianity in the second century were the Gnostics, Montanus and the Montanists, and the anti-Christian orator Celsus.
Description: "In this panoramic work of historical theology, theologian Roger Olson vividly recounts the deeds and words of the cultists and Apostolic Fathers of the second century, the clash between the monumental theological schools of Alexandria and Antioch, the epochal division between East and West, the revolutionary advent of the Reformation, and much more - right on up to the sometimes dazzling, sometimes dismaying fallout that has continued to shake Christians through the twentieth century.

Through it all Olson detects and traces a common thread: a concern for salvation, God's redemptive activity in forgiving and transforming sinful human beings."--BOOK JACKET.