That One Face: The Doctrine of Christ in the First Six Centuries of Christianity

—The Crisis of Christology in Early Christianity—
One of the greatest challenges for the early New Testament churches was understanding and explaining the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Trinity. Faced with persecution from without and heretical challenges from within, the first pastors and church leaders searched the Scriptures to understand how Jesus could be both God and man. With the Bible as their guide, they grappled with differing views and the implications of those views. Tha...