Eerdmans

Early Christian Theology

A History

J. Warren Smith

Eerdmans · Historical Theology
Published January 2026 · ISBN 9780802874771

About this book

A history of Christian doctrine across the second through fifth centuries — Trinity, Christology, salvation, the church, and last things.

About the author. J. Warren Smith is professor of historical theology at Duke Divinity School. His research focuses primarily on patristic theology; his books include Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness, Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose’s Ethics, and Passion and Paradise: Divine and Human Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa.

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