New Book on What Really Matters in Early Church History

If you're confused or overwhelmed with debates on the early Church, here are some clear, basic facts.

Lexington, KY (PRWEB) November 25, 2005 -- iUniverse has just published Trinity, Canon, and Constantine: Clear Light on the Early Church, by Alfred D. Byrd.

When debates on Christianity's origins rage around you, do you get lost in strange names and stranger-sounding teachings? When you look these up, do you feel overwhelmed by long sentences and countless details? Just now there is a need for a simple, non-denominational explanation of what is important in the early Church.

Trinity, Canon, and Constantine: Clear Light on the Early Church is a clear, brief, affordable guide to characters, councils, and controversies that shaped the Church still alive today! You'll even learn of such hot topics as the Church and the Jews, the Church and the Gnostics, and the role of Church and Empire in setting the stage for the rise of Islam.

Alfred D. Byrd, who has taught on early Christianity in Bible study and Sunday school, has assembled some clear, basic facts on the Church's birth. He has also published with iUniverse Thistledown, Through the Gate of Horn, The Ghost of Pelfrey's Bend, and On the Wings of Dream.

Trinity, Canon, and Constantine contains an introductory chapter on the Roman Empire at the time of Christ and ten further chapters on Christianity's development in the Roman Empire till Islam's arrival in 637 A. D. The book is ideal for an eleven-week Bible study or Sunday-school course on early Christianity. The book would also work well for a six-week course tracing Christianity's rise from Pentecost to the Council of Nicaea.

In less than 25,000 words Trinity, Canon, and Constantine touches all of the controversies around the teaching that Jesus was just a human prophet, and that the doctrine of the Trinity and the present canon of the New Testament were foisted onto the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine the Great at the Council of Nicaea. Trinity, Canon, and Constantine presents a clear chain of authority from the Apostle John to the Patriarch Athanasius for the development of Trinitarianism and the use of the present gospels and epistles in the three centuries before Constantine's reign.

Trinity, Canon, and Constantine: Clear Light on the Early Church retails for $11.95. It is available on line at www.iuniverse.com, or from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble. Wholesaler's discounts are available at the iUniverse Web Site.

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