Pocket Dictionary of Church History (The IVP Pocket Reference Series)

Feldmeth, Nathan P.

ISBN 10: 083082703X / ISBN 13: 9780830827039

Published by IVP Academic, 2008

About this Item

The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pocket Dictionary of Church History (The IVP Pocket Reference Series)
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083082703X
• ISBN 13: 9780830827039
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncles and scrapbooks of photos thrown in. Someone needs to point out what's important and remind you ofthe facts as you learn to tell the story on your own.

The Pocket Dictionary of Church History is designed to help students identify the people, places, events, movements and ideas that checker the story of the church through the ages.Among the three-hundred-plus definitions you'll find

• terms, from ad fontes to via media
• leaders and theologians, from Abelard to Zwingli
• "isms," from Arminianism to Unitarianism
• places and events, from the Azusa Street Mission to the White Horse Inn
• councils, from Nicaea to Vatican II

Here is an indispensable glossary, the perfect companion to your study and reading of church history.

Designed for students and pastorsalike, the short and accessible volumes in the IVP Pocket Reference Series will help you tackle the study of biblical languages, church history, apologetics, world religions, Christian spirituality, ethics, theology, and more.

About the Author

Nathan Feldmeth is associate dean for extended education and assistant professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has contributed articles to InterVarsity Press's New Dictionary of Theology, Dictionary of Christianity in America and Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters.