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Written by a team of over 160 scholars, the new expanded and revised Encyclopedia is a comprehensive survey of Christianity's first six centuries. The Encyclopedia digests an enormous amount of information, exploring all aspects of its subject from theological, historical and literary viewpoints.

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... concise and reliable information. Highly recommended as a core title in all personal and professional Christian historical studies collections. <br>-The Midwest Book Review <br> It is a testimony to the vitality and breadth of early Christian studies in North America. It is also testimony to the perceptive editing and revising skills of Everett Ferguson and his associate editors, Michael McHugh and Frederick Norris. <br>-The Catholic Historical Review <br> [I]ndispensable for the scholar for its concise and accurate information as well as the basic and updated bibliography for every entry. We commend the editor, contributors and publisher for this major achievement and valuable reference on the early Church. <br>-Coptic Church Review <br>... provides a useful orientation to the major topics, the scholarly issues, and the literature through which to begin exploring an important but complex set of places, times, and people. <br>-Church History <br> Remarkably successful in its aim to be comprehensive....This substantive reference work will continue to appeal to general readers and students as well as specialists. Highly recommended. <br>-Library Journal <br>

... concise and reliable information. Highly recommended as a core title in all personal and professional Christian historical studies collections. -The Midwest Book Review It is a testimony to the vitality and breadth of early Christian studies in North America. It is also testimony to the perceptive editing and revising skills of Everett Ferguson and his associate editors, Michael McHugh and Frederick Norris. -The Catholic Historical Review [I]ndispensable for the scholar for its concise and accurate information as well as the basic and updated bibliography for every entry. We commend the editor, contributors and publisher for this major achievement and valuable reference on the early Church. -Coptic Church Review ... provides a useful orientation to the major topics, the scholarly issues, and the literature through which to begin exploring an important but complex set of places, times, and people. -Church History Remarkably successful in its aim to be comprehensive....This substantive reference work will continue to appeal to general readers and students as well as specialists. Highly recommended. -Library Journal

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Everett Ferguson received S.T.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, where he was Honorary John Harvard Fellow. He has taught most of his career at Abilene Christian University, where he has twice been honored in his college as Teacher of the Year. Everett Ferguson has been president of the North American Patristic Society, served on the Council of the American Society of Church History, and is now on the Council of the Association Internationale d'ftudes Patristiques. His books include Backgrounds of Early Christianity, 2nd ed. (1993), Early Christians Speak, rev. ed. (1987), and (with A.J. Malherbe) Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Moses(1378). He was founding editor of The Second Century, co-editor of Journal of Early Christian Studies, and general editor of Garland's 18-volume Studies in Early Christianity(1993).

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