There Once was a Serpent: A History of Theology in Limericks

There Once was a Serpent: A History of Theology in Limericks

by Richard Kiechkhefer
There Once was a Serpent: A History of Theology in Limericks

There Once was a Serpent: A History of Theology in Limericks

by Richard Kiechkhefer

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Overview

This book gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously discovered set of seventy-four limericks. Readers who already know the history of theology will read about it from an unfamiliar perspective-and beginners will learn the basics in an accessible form. The limericks range from Gnostic theology through to the Reformation, and on to Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. If all of this seems unfamiliar, the accompanying text should help sort it all out.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846942969
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 05/16/2010
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Starting Out on One Foot or the Other: The Early Church 5

Chapter 2 Theology Goes to School: The Middle Ages 28

Chapter 3 All Hell Breaks Loose: The Reformation and Counter-Reformation 54

Chapter 4 Teetering on the Edge: The Modern Era 65

Notes 89

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