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Title: Too many embarrassing errors and omissions.
Review: Ron Rhodes does not seem to possess the scholarship and background knowledge needed to produce an accurate guide to the Christian denominations in North America. His accounts of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy are especially poor. A frankly embarrassing level of ignorance leads Rhodes to make numerous historical, theological, and terminological errors of fact. One despairs of an author of a "complete guide" who can write concerning the First Vatican Council (1869/70):"More than 800 Roman Catholic priests (sic) from around the world attended." Forty years ago a Jesuit priest, the late Father John Hardon, S.J., published "The Protestant Churches of America", a work of such impartial, objective, and deep scholarship that it was set as a textbook in many Protestant seminaries. So the task is not impossible!
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