‘A work of masterly brevity… which generations of students will enjoy and benefit from.’
Henry Chadwick, Theology

Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church has rapidly established itself as the standard introduction to the subject for student and general reader alike. In keeping with the previous edition, this revised text is carefully organised with cross-references to A New Eusebius and Creeds, Councils and Controversies.

This new edition includes minor corrections and clarifications: the Further Reading section has been revised and the discussion of a number of topics has been brought up to date. House churches now appear in descriptions of early church organization and Athanasius has an extra paragraph to himself. There are refinements in the material on Gnostics, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Constantine, the Creed of Constantinople and the ‘Monophysites’.

Stewart G. Hall was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King’s College, London. He has written widely on the early Church, on the New Testament and on Liturgy. He has recently worked in Fife as a parish priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church.