Title: Good overview of historical theology
Product review: Especially for people just beginning to study the history of Christian thought, this is a pretty good historical overview. Capetz is usually clear and easy to understand, and he seems to have a fairly impressive knowledge of key philosophical and theological thinkers in Christian history. He's definitely working from a specific theological viewpoint, and sometimes his interpretive efforts can get in the way (his interpretation of Luther and Julian of Norwich seems a little less orthodox than these two thinkers would admit). Also, his strengths are not in biblical studies, as the brief chapters on the biblical tradition indicate. However, this is a short, concise, fairly useful rendering of Christian intellectual expression from the early church to the twentieth century.
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