Title: Excellent
Review: This is a marvelous treatment of a complicated subject, and I suspect few will be disappointed by Kelly's work. If you're reading this outside the academy or seminary, I would suggest a number of useful supplements: Cyril C. Richardson's "Early Christian Fathers" (ISBN 0684829517)an anthology of writings by Christian leaders primarily in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and Henry Chadwick's "The Early Church," (ISBN 0140231994) a very short treatment of the first five centuries of the Christian church, or W.H.C. Frend's longer, "The Rise of Christianity" (ISBN 0800619315).
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