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By: Adadzie, Godwin Delali

Adadzie, Godwin Delali — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:44:01 +0000

Thank you very much for the lists. I hope to get them soon and start reading them. Shalom!

By: Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:32:09 +0000

Proctor: Really? Most? I see Protestant as well as Catholic authors and at least one agnostic. And all but one of the authors has substantial credentials for “full and complete scholarship” — whatever that means (and why both “full” and “complete”?). Have you read the books you’re dismissing? If not, you should be ashamed. If so, you need to read again.

By: Proctor S. Burress

Proctor S. Burress — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:06:39 +0000

Unfortunately most of these recommendations seem to radiate apologetics not full and complete scholarship.

By: John Kavanagh

John Kavanagh — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:36:36 +0000

I checked on Amazon and found that Wilken uses the trendy CE/BCE system of dating. I won’t subsidize that. Does that make me a bigoted, narrow-minded fool? So be it. There are enough good books I haven’t read for me to delve into one by an author whose judgement is immediately suspect. Somebody else is going to have to rock my world.

By: Top 20 Books on the Early Church « Eating Words

Top 20 Books on the Early Church « Eating Words — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:45:41 +0000

[...] Mike Aquilina has posted his top 20 books on the early church. Looks like a great list. He’s obviously Catholic, but nobody’s perfect. Just this morning I ordered his book on the Holy Grail, which looks very promising. Anybody have any more recommendations? I should add that CPA recommends Early Christian Writings. [...]

By: Katolikken » Blog Archive » Topp 20: bøker om tidleg kristendom

Katolikken » Blog Archive » Topp 20: bøker om tidleg kristendom — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:03:51 +0000

[...] Bloggen The Way of the Fathers har laga ei topp 20 liste over bøker om tidleg kristendom. Her finn ein materiell for lang tid framover. Eg kan nemne at 17. plassen er gjeve til ein nordmann, Oskar Skarsaune, professor på Menighetsfakultetet i Oslo. Her er lista: [...]

By: Eating Words » Of Reading Many Books There Is No End

Eating Words » Of Reading Many Books There Is No End — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:34:04 +0000

[...] In his top 20 books on the early church, Mike Aquilina recommended In Procession Before the Word: Martyrdom as Public Liturgy in Early Christianity by Robin Darling Young. I picked it up at the IU library today and have read just a few pages. One of the notes pointed me to another book which piqued my interest – The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity by Jon D. Levenson. Does anyone know anything about this book? (Mike, did you ever read this?) [...]

By: mike

mike — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:53:14 +0000

I compiled these as a book instead.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:40:54 +0000

I would rather see a top 20 books written by church fathers.

1 Clement
Augustines Confessions, city of God
Origen (there’s a compliation call Spirit and Fire which is a good starting point, btw Origen is amazingly insightful, for someone I wrote off as a nut before i read)
Ambrose, his letters are really interesting, especially his correspondece with the empororer.

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:13:47 +0000

Mike,

Thanks for the list. I’ve always found Henry Chadwick’s books quite good, especially his Early Church. Not quite from a Catholic perspective, but in my opinion quite friendly to the cause. One of the more readable patristics texts, at least at an introductory level.