Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. A moderate amount of wear on Cover and interior pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 133 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Abingdon Pr
Date Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN-13:9780687491162ISBN:0687491169
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"This is something everyone who's interested in Christianity should read. Hamilton is very fair-minded and focuses on the positive aspects of eight denominations, even the ones that are easy to make fun of. It's very concise and educational. Not exactly gripping, but that's not why you'd read it, so that's OK. He has a similar book on world religions that I look forward to reading someday."
"At our church we completed this journey via sermon series and evening study. Helpful introduction to other 'movements' or branches of Christianity. Especially poignant is Hamilton's intent to learn from these branches, rather than merely dismiss them as different."
"If you want a quick tour through the major Christian denominations, mixing history and theology and some positivist advice, you couldn't do better than this short book.
It is written by a Methodist pastor near Kansas City, and he does an excellent job of boiling down the complexities of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptist, Pentecostal and Methodist branches of Christianity in terms of how they got started, what distnguishes them, and equally important, what binds them together.
As a Presbyterian, my only reservation is that he put a little too much emphasis on the old (some would say outmoded) Calvinist doctrine of TULIP. While you Reformed theology insiders smile to yourselves, I will avoid boring the others wtih this doctrine, except to say that the "T" stands for "total depravity," the state into which we are all born (hah! -- take that, you Rousseauians).
This can be read in a day or two at most. It's accompanied by videos for each chapter, for use in small group instruction."
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