Early Christian Traditions

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: McGowan, Andrew | Copyright information

Early Christian Traditions. By Rebecca Lyman. The New Church's Teaching Series 6. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1999. xi + 178 pp. $11.95 (paper).

Only the first six centuries of Christian history receive the attention of a whole volume in the New Church's Teaching Series. Rebecca Lyman's Early Christian Traditions should be especially useful to those for whom this is a surprise, or who know that the early Church is important to Anglicanism but not quite why or how. Lyman's book...

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