A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs allows the user to quickly ascertain what the early Christians1 believed on over 700 different theological, moral, and historical topics, and it functions as an index to the writings of the ante-Nicene writers, specifically as collected in the ten-volume work, the Ante-Nicene Fathers.2 Why are the beliefs of these early Christian authors important? Because early Christian testimony holds that many, such as Clement of Rome and Polycarp,
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