"With more than 315,000 print copies sold, this is the story of the church for today’s listeners. Dr. Bruce Shelley makes church history come alive in this classic book that has become not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms. What separates Dr. Shelley’s book from others is its clarity of language and organization. Church History in Plain Language treats history as t ..."
"With more than 315,000 print copies sold, this is the story of the church for today’s listeners. Dr. Bruce Shelley makes church history come alive in this classic book that has become not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms. What separates Dr. Shelley’s book from others is its clarity of language and organization. Church History in Plain Language treats history as t ..."
"Early Christian writers (for example Polycarp and lgnatius) quote from the
Gospels and Paul's letters, as well as from ... at Rome (the “Muratorian Canon")
Four Gospels Acts Paul's letters: Romans 1 & 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians
... 1 & 2 Thessalonians 1 & 2 Timothy Titus Philemon I 1 Peter I 1John f
Revelation of John I Disputed f Hebrews i James ' 2 Peter ... I Jude 5 The
Shepherd of Hermes 2 Letter of Barnabus 1 Teaching o ..."
"Albert C. Outler, ed., Library of Protestant Thought (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1964), 70-73. (Wesley's convictions about ... Frank Cumbers, ed., Daily
Readings from W. E. Sangster (Old Tappan, N.J.: Revell, 1966), 55. 54. Ibid., 85.
55."
"With more than 315,000 print copies sold, this is the story of the church for today s listeners. Dr. Bruce Shelley makes church history come alive in this classic book that has become not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms. What separates Dr. Shelley s book from others is its clarity of language and organization. "Church History in Plain Language" treats history as ..."
"With more than 315,000 print copies sold, this is the story of the church for today s listeners. Dr. Bruce Shelley makes church history come alive in this classic book that has become not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms. What separates Dr. Shelley s book from others is its clarity of language and organization. "Church History in Plain Language" treats history as ..."
By What Authority The Standards of Truth in the Early Church by DrBruceShelley Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 1998 by Wipf & Stock Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-57910-187-9, ISBN: 1-57910-187-9
"In all areas of scientific endeavor, the twentieth-century mind has repeatedly searched for a rule or principle by which the truth or falsehood of a statement may be judged. The first question of the scientist is: ""How do I ""know"" such and such to be the case?"" In theology, too, increasing interest has been focused on the sources of truth; the Christian theologian asks, ""Why should I accept this doctrine or that moral precept? By w ..."
"Bruce Leon Shelley, Marshall Shelley. the New-Fash ioned Way A Michigan
church advertises guilt-free sermons. A Florida church works the beach,
exhorting, "Keep surfing for Jesus. "A California church plays fusion jazz rather
than hymns."