This book was both fascinating and boring at the same time. There is a whole hell of a lot going on here! The modern church seems to skirt around so much of the history from about 0-300 CE, and reading this book, it's pretty obvious why. Everyone was flailing around and coming up with crazy stuff and apparently no one knew what was going on. I think knowing the history of the early Christian church is paramount to understanding how we got to where we are today. Some of the sketchy inclusion/exclusion texts from this era also make more sense when you observe the total chaos that was the first few centuries of Christianity.
I think this book would have been more impactful if it had been boiled down to about half its size. It dragged on for a long time that wasn't really relevant to the titled topic.
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