[NYer]

I wish the author had gone more into the early writings, and how they reflect certain doctrines that are contentious today. Like maybe pick three or four, and analyze them. That would be educational for all.

Again, I agree! And, in fact, the author covers 23 such doctrines, all of which I planned to post, one at a time. But, since you are the first to ask, you get to pick the first one posted. Is there any one or two in particular that particularly pique your interest?

[cdcdawg]

If you are planning on posting them anyway, I sure don't care as to the order. Go for it. The fact is that most of us don't have the time to really study these early writings in any depth, so we depend on others to break them down for us.

As an aside, if anything good came of The DaVinci Code, it may have inspired people (it did me) to check out some of these early writings to see just how far Dan Brown went off the deep end. There is a wealth of wisdom in those early writings that any Christian with an eye for history should find engrossing.