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There is a thread of religious belief in Protestant and other late coming churches who believe that the Early Church was somehow lost during what is known as The Great Apostasy. They seek out this time, frequently blamed on Constantine and tied to the Council of Nicaea, in order to justify their own beliefs and rejections of the Catholic Church or other high church traditions. Rod Bennett took this for granted at one point in his life and was faced with a jarring conclusion while a visiting a strange place one day. This book is his answer for what he found when he turned to history and the people who were there for the answers instead of what the storyline required to justify various sects.Told in a conversational style using a lot of fictionalized vignettes, but strongly anchored to the writings and so far as we know them the characters of the Church Fathers and their opponents. This makes some dense material more approachable. As a Catholic, I know that this thread exists claiming the Catholic Church somehow subverted the will of the Apostles, but I never realized that it was blamed on the defeat of Arianism. This just doesn't make sense given most of these people and churches accept the Trinity and the divinity of Christ so not clear why they would wish to align otherwise. This book laid that out well by showing exactly what myths are perpetuated. It kind of like the Fulton Sheen quote of few hating the actual Church, but millions hating what they think it is. A healthy dose of Church Fathers is good for everyone and this was a very nice dose of medicine. The style provides a little cover for the deep history presented.
An outstanding source of factual information regarding the truth of the Council of Nicea and the limited role played by Constantine. The use of the narrative voice to convey the setting and the roles is very effective. And the inclusion of more than 200 factual footnotes makes it easy to cross reference any statement with which the reader may take issue.The description of the setting for St. Jerome's translation of the Greek Scriptures into Latin seemed more an afterthought or side story. While it did give historical context to the celebration of Christmas, it did not make clear the importance and purpose for St. Jerome's translation and writing of the Latin Vulgate, which I thought could have been done without going too far from the path.The condensed section at the end showing the church and its universally held truths that predated Nicea and Constantine by more than 200 years should be required reading for anyone who seeks the historical truth of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, untainted by fashionable stories and fictional movies.
I was amazed at the amount of myth and misinformation, concerning the early Church, which I had been taking for granted as accepted fact. Bennett is the anti- Dan Brown, and this book should be on the must read list of any truth seeking Christian.
Excellent book, though a more difficult read than his first book, Four Witnesses, The Early Church in Her Own Words. In this book Mr. Bennett carefully studied the myth believed many people that while though the Catholic Church was the church established by Jesus but after a while it fell apart and went into apostasy. If what those people teach was true, Rod wanted to find the history of how that happened. So to his credit, he began his quest for truth. Very well researched and a powerful, and persuasive must read for all believers. Highly recommend!!!
As a fan of Bennett's previous work, FOUR WITNESSES, I've been looking forward to this book ever since I heard that it was to be published. (Rod Bennett is Mark Shea's Thursday co-host on the Bread Box Media radio show Connecting the Dots, and I listen to the podcast--ahem--religiously.) I tore through THE APOSTASY THAT WASN'T in about a day, and I am happy as a clam, because it does almost exactly what FOUR WITNESSES did, just for a slightly later period of history.I'd say both FOUR WITNESSES and this book are written at a reading level that an advanced 8th grader could absorb, given some basic New Testament knowledge and enough interest. It's probably not necessary to have read FOUR WITNESSES first, although familiarity with Bennett's style--a blend of block-quotes from dozens of sources, tied together at various points with either narrated historical fact or historical speculation--doesn't hurt. My description might make the book sound like a hodgepodge, but I think it hangs together well; your mileage may vary, of course.Bennett's goal in FW was to refute the argument that there was a Great Apostasy very early in the Church's history, sometime before 200 AD. In THE APOSTASY THAT WASN'T, he takes aim at another widespread Great Apostasy theory, which argues that the Church syncretized early Christianity with Roman paganism at the time of the Council of Nicaea. In FW, he examined four Apostolic Fathers who were separated by time and physical distance, which made it read like an anthology of four novellas; TATW is much more unified, because Bennett mainly follows one man, Athanasius, who at a certain point seemed to be the only clergyman in the whole of the Eastern Roman Empire not to have fallen for the Arian heresy.I had imagined that the entire text would focus on what happened in 325 at the Council of Nicaea, but in fact Bennett is done with this event about a third of the way through the book, which begins with Antony of Coma during the persecution of Diocletian, and ends nearly a century later with an epilogue featuring Saint Jerome, and introducing Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa at relevant points along the way. I found it a truly exciting read: knowing the outcome didn't diminish the suspense at all, and I frequently found myself wondering, "How's Athanasius going to get himself out of THIS one?!" (The answer, of course, tends to be, "By the grace of God.")As with FOUR WITNESSES, I found myself learning something new with every page. I hadn't realized how much of the Arian controversy had occurred after the decision of I Nicaea, or how close Eastern Christianity had come to embracing this heresy, or how much the misunderstandings of Christian doctrine found in Islamic teachings (the Trinity being the Father, the Son, and the Virgin Mary, for example) were influenced by the Arianism that held fast in the Arabian Peninsula even after it had been repudiated everywhere else. I feel like I have a much firmer grasp on the history of the Church and the Eastern Roman Empire during this period. Highly recommended for lay Christians looking to learn something new about their history!CAVEATS:For non-Catholic Christians:-It's written by a Catholic. As a former-Protestant/now-Catholic myself, I don't find him to be very biased; his goal seems to be for every Christian, Catholic or not, to gain familiarity with the Fathers of our common heritage. However, his love for--and faith in--the Catholic Church shines through clearly, and he certainly does not try to hide that he believes the Catholic Church of modern times is one and the same as the Church of the 4th century.-I think Bennett succeeds very well at proving that there was no Great Apostasy. However, this will not convince the vast majority of Protestants who subscribe not to a Great Apostasy but to a "gradual apostasy" theory (my own phrasing) of Why The Reformation Was Necessary. Perhaps Bennett will take on that subject in a later text, but I imagine it would be very difficult to prove satisfactorily, since the goalposts are so easily movable.For non-Christians:-While I wouldn't say reading this text would be entirely unfruitful for you, you are not Bennett's intended audience. He is a Christian writing to acquaint other Christians with their own history, and he makes no effort towards "neutrality" in terms of the truth or falsity, rightness or wrongness of the Christian Faith. I can imagine this bothering me were I not already a believer.For all readers:-Bennett is not a professional historian, he is a history buff with a background in science fiction writing. The transitions between times and places are written like a novel and are heavily speculative regarding historical events, imagined meetings between historical figures, and the inner lives/motivations of those historical figures. Bennett is always very clear when he is speculating, but professional historians and scholars may find themselves annoyed with the liberties taken.-Be sure to read the footnotes for a wealth of extra detail!-The book is excellently sourced, but there are a few quotes missing citations. I know some writers prefer to cite at the end of a paragraph or section, but in a text with such an extensive bibliography I'd prefer a citation on every single quote.-At least on Kindle, the formatting is a bit different from FOUR WITNESSES, in which if I recall correctly Bennett's speculative writing was set off in italics, and direct quotes from primary sources were bolded, leaving only Bennett's factual writing and quotes from secondary sources in regular typeface. TATW doesn't do this, and I found myself longing for the visual cues at times, but perhaps other readers found FW's system distracting.-Is it homoousios, homoousious, or homoüsious? In an otherwise typo-free text, this discrepancy stuck out. Perhaps it was only fidelity to the quoted sources, but it bugged me.-In the end, I'd say both this and FOUR WITNESSES are appropriate as introductions to the Church Fathers, but it really is up to serious people to delve into their writings on their own. For me, having attempted the Fathers before and floundered due to my ignorance of their historical contexts, FOUR WITNESSES gave me the confidence I needed to approach the original texts again, with more success. I hope to do the same with Athanasius, Basil, and the two Gregories when I have some downtime!
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