Title: Choose Chadwick!
Product review: While I agree that the feat of compressing early Christian history into just under 300 pages is laudable, this book suffers from spelling mistakes (including one on the first page "ofen" for "often"), random changes of tense, awkward sentence structure, and outrageously biased opinions such as calling Tertullian a "bigot" without good cause (see page 69). Admittedly, many of these faults are the editor's, but they all contribute to a sense that the book was assembled hastily and carelessly. Hall's book hangs together much more comprehensively if the reader pretends he or she is at a live lecture, since Hall's prose style lends itself more to an oral presentation than to a written work. All in all, if you are a stickler for grammar and punctuation, choose Chadwick's "The Early Church" ...lots of good information without the aggravation.
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