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Summary: A Valuable Reference on the Christian Church
Review: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is a readable, organized and comprehensive volume of 570 pages. It covers most topics needed for research from Aaron to Zwingli. There is also a list, in chronological order, of popes and antipopes; up to and including John Paul II. I have found the book to be especially useful in researching complicated topics such as the early councils and reformers of the late Middle Ages. Written in the usual high standard of the Oxford series, I have yet to find a topic that I was looking for not covered. Feasts, theologians,Biblical books and lives of the saints are among the five thousand topics covered. If you need to know the difference between "Urbs Beata Hierusalem" and "Urbs Sion Aurea", this is the book.
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Summary: A Valuable Reference on the Christian Church
Review: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is a readable, organized and comprehensive volume of 570 pages. It covers most topics needed for research from Aaron to Zwingli. There is also a list, in chronological order, of popes and antipopes; up to and including John Paul II. I have found the book to be especially useful in researching complicated topics such as the early councils and reformers of the late Middle Ages. Written in the usual high standard of the Oxford series, I have yet to find a topic that I was looking for not covered. Feasts, theologians,Biblical books and lives of the saints are among the five thousand topics covered. If you need to know the difference between "Urbs Beata Hierusalem" and "Urbs Sion Aurea", this is the book.
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Summary: Excellent reference for anyone interested in Christianity
Review: This was a required book for my theology school class on the history of Christian thought seven years ago, and it has been one of my most well-used reference books ever since. I'm now a doctoral student in religion, and I keep this book next to my desk, with my Webster's dictionary, my Bible, and my "Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen." I almost always find what I'm looking for in this book, and the entries are clear and helpful, neither too short nor too long.While I occasionally covet the un-concise version of this dictionary and may ask Santa for it some Christmas, I wonder if I'd actually use the hefty hardback as much as I use this handy, concise paperback.
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Summary: Excellent reference for anyone interested in Christianity
Review: This was a required book for my theology school class on the history of Christian thought seven years ago, and it has been one of my most well-used reference books ever since. I'm now a doctoral student in religion, and I keep this book next to my desk, with my Webster's dictionary, my Bible, and my "Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen." I almost always find what I'm looking for in this book, and the entries are clear and helpful, neither too short nor too long. While I occasionally covet the un-concise version of this dictionary and may ask Santa for it some Christmas, I wonder if I'd actually use the hefty hardback as much as I use this handy, concise paperback.
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