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Pocket History of Theology: Twenty Centuries in Five Concise Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here is a concise and informative guide to the history of Christian theology. This condensation of Roger Olson’s widely acclaimed The Story of Christian Theology surveys the events, teachings, and challenges to the Christian faith down through the ages. In five acts, we are ushered from the second to the twenty-first century, following all the twists and turns, wrinkles, and rivalries that lay...

century at first accepted it; finally, however, he excluded it. Without doubt, The Shepherd of Hermas had great influence among postapostolic Christians in various portions of the Roman Empire, yet it is virtually unknown by most Christians today. The Shepherd contains a series of visions and their explanations given by an angel to Hermas himself. Many of the interpretations are in parable form and are interspersed with commandments, instructions and mandates for Christian living. The message of
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