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A History of Christian Thought Volume I: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon is unavailable, but you can change that!

A treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the great flowering of Christianity across the world. The first volume introduces the central figures and debates culminating in the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon among which the theologies of the early church were hammered out. Volume 2  #9781426721915 Volume 3 ...

treatises he gave shape to a doctrine of the church that would be very significant for later developments. Cyprian sees the church as the indispensable ark of salvation.39 Just as in the time of Noah no one who was not within the ark could be saved, now also only those who are within the church can be saved. "There is no salvation out of the Church,"40 and "he can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother."41 This is the reason why Cyprian adopts an uncompromising
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