tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10020592.post6254155768668861355..comments2024-03-21T12:32:39.345-05:00Comments on Frankly Speaking: The First 100 Pages of the First 3000 YearsFrank Bellizzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949066335378651585noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10020592.post-52302163512614404432011-04-30T00:17:30.795-05:002011-04-30T00:17:30.795-05:00Frank I have always viewed MacCulloch as a popular...Frank I have always viewed MacCulloch as a popularist writer rather than a serious critical scholar. I have flipped through "Christianity" at Borders but havent gotten around to shelling out the dough for it. His volume on the Reformation I found to be an interesting read though. Yet that his Christianity was published by Penguin rather than Fortress or similar publisher sort of makes me look askew at it. <br /><br />But he is not the only one like this. I have been reading my own thousand page book, The Bible in English by David Daniel. This is a very good book for the most part. Yet I was literally floored when on page 648 he says that Alexander Campbell "with his brother Thomas" formed the Disciples of Christ. I almost decided to write the publisher (which is Yale University Press btw!!) those kinds of errors do cast a shadow over other areas where I am less familiar!!Stoned-Campbell Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00807468566670784346noreply@blogger.com