Review: A DICTIONARY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN BELIEFS by David Bercot

Over the years, Bercot has devoted a great deal of time and effort to the early Christian writings. This book is one of the results, and proves he hasn't been wasting his time.

Bercot collects a great many passages from The Ante-Nicene Fathers (a 19th-century set collecting the extant Christian writings from before the Council of Nicea in 325AD) under hundreds of subject headings. What makes this book really valuable is that he also includes Scripture references, showing where they got their beliefs and forming a topical concordance.

If you have an interest in the pre-Nicene Church, I can't recommend this highly enough. If you don't I still recommend it.