Title: Nice narrative, misleading history.
Review: This book's author is a convert to Roman Catholicism, and the book reads like it: while a "cradle Catholic" [sic] would take a balanced approach to Roman Catholicism, weighing the bad with the good, Crocker provides a crock, er, a heavily weighted apologia for Roman Catholicism. Especially interesting is his discussion of the break with the Orthodox, wherein a position that never had been doctrinal before suddenly becomes the measure of "true" Christianity, and Crocker finds this perfectly reasonable!If you are a committed Roman Catholic who does not know much about the history of Christianity, this book's bias will not bother you and its cheerleading will appeal; otherwise, try a different title (say, Gregory Palamas's _The Triads_).
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