"The Christian Tradition" by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

[Phidippides]

Anyone ever read any of the volumes in this series from the 1970s? 

[scout1067]

Nope.  Never even heard of it or the author.  What is it supposed to be about?

[DonaldBaker]

The author is well known in Christian History circles along with Robin Lane Fox and others.  Never read him though.

[Phidippides]

Nope.  Never even heard of it or the author.  What is it supposed to be about?

I believe it's just a history of Christendom that is one of the "cornerstones" of the field.  I haven't read it, but my advisor mentioned the title to me.

[scout1067]

Given that I focus almost exclusively on Military history in reading for pleasure, it is no wonder I have not heard of him.  Maybe one of you guys will read it and post a review?  I have several hundred military history titles but none that deal with Christian History exclusively, maybe the closest is 20 or so books on the Crusades.  Perhaps this is an area worth looking into, it would be interesting to learn more than contemporary history books tell us about the spread and history of Christianity.

[DonaldBaker]

The Bokenkotter book I'm reading mentioned him as one of the leading scholars in this area.  I had heard of him before.  I probably will try to get this work eventually.

[scout1067]

I look forward to hearing whether it would appeal to a more general audience or if it aimed at a more specific group.

[wuchun]

Given that I
focus almost exclusively on Military history in reading for pleasure, it is no wonder I have not heard of him.  Maybe one of you guys will read it and post a review?  I have several hundred military history titles but none that deal with Christian History exclusively, maybe the closest is 20 or so books on the Crusades.  Perhaps this is an area worth looking into, it would be interesting to learn more than contemporary history books tell us about the spread and history of Christianity.

[scout1067]

Given that I
focus almost exclusively on Military history in reading for pleasure, it is no wonder I have not heard of him.  Maybe one of you guys will read it and post a review?  I have several hundred military history titles but none that deal with Christian History exclusively, maybe the closest is 20 or so books on the Crusades.  Perhaps this is an area worth looking into, it would be interesting to learn more than contemporary history books tell us about the spread and history of Christianity.

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[DonaldBaker]

I took out the spam links, but I left the post wuchun.  If you want to participate here legitimately fine, but if you're here to spam, we won't tolerate that.  This is a spam free forum.