Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up

I am sure many have read this book... At least in the Home Church movement. A really good book for any denomenation.

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Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up

David Bercot. Our all-time best seller! This is the book that launched Scroll Publishing Co. A fascinating overview of the early Christians (A.D. 90 - 299): Who they were. How they lived. What they believed. And how the Christianity of that era was lost.

Penned in a free-flowing readable style, combined with sound scholarship, this eye-opening book challenges Christians today to return to the simple holiness, unfailing love, and patient cross-bearing of the early Christians. Includes a challenging comparison between the early Christians and today’s evangelicals.

192 pp. Paperback.

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Editorial Reviews:

Family Life, October, 1989
Perhaps the single most important thing the book did for me was to introduce me in an unforgettable way to the early Christian writings. ...However, the author, David Bercot, does more than introduce the reader to the early Christians and their writings he advances a powerful and persuasive argument as to why we should take the early Christians and their writings seriously. This argument is basically similar to saying that the further upstream you go, the purer the waters should be. He makes a convincing case that these early Christian writers were in the best possible position to interpret and understand what the inspired writers had in mind when they wrote the New Testament. After all, some of these early Christian leaders were co-workers with the apostles and knew them personally. It is logical that they had a real advantage over us who read the Bible after nearly 2,000 years.

Bookstore Journal, November, 1989
We’ve heard it all before. The church’s decline began when Constantine named Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire. David Bercot recounts all this and more. He is deeply concerned with the church’s lack of spirituality. He is upset that the church has adopted worldly standards of success rapid growth and wealth. He is right in feeling and expressing these concerns. And he expresses them well.

The Plough, April, 1990
"Early Christianity was a revolution that swept through the ancient world like fire through dry timber," challenging traditional customs and institutions. The author contends that the early Church’s stance toward society should concern us deeply, as we face many similar burning issues: divorce, abortion, entertainment, war, economic injustice, and the role of men/women.

Bercot, who is also a lawyer, takes the reader on a very stimulating journey in which we meet Polycarp (who was personally discipled by the apostle John) and other second-century witnesses.

The Obligator, August, 1989
To say this book packs a jolt is an understatement. Bercot doesn’t point fingers; he just tells it like it is, and no book other than Snyder’s The Problem of Wineskins has affected my thinking of the church more than this one. This book has my highest recommendations.

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Rich DeRuiter

Fred, though the topic is a bit different my reply here applies in general to this thread as well.

If you would like to see Scroll books in Logos make a recommendation to Logos and approach Scroll (mail, email, phone, etc.) to encourage them to enter into an agreement with Logos. I'm sure there are those who would love to see at least some of these works in Logos.

EDIT: After reading another of your threads in the Suggestions forum, I re-read this and realized that this post is different from the one I referred you to, in that you aren't asking us to go to Scroll to get the book. It does look like a simple recommendation. These are welcome here. I do think it may be helpful to encourage Scroll and Logos to enter into some kind of agreement about publishing those works in Logos.

Brian Huddleston

I've read, but don't own this particular book. I'd definitely buy it if Logos carried it. There are some other books from Scroll Publishing that look like they would be good reads.

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/282903#Comment_282903

Fred, though the topic is a bit different my reply here applies in general to this thread as well.

If you would like to see Scroll books in Logos make a recommendation to Logos and approach Scroll (mail, email, phone, etc.) to encourage them to enter into an agreement with Logos. I'm sure there are those who would love to see at least some of these works in Logos.

EDIT: After reading another of your threads in the Suggestions forum, I re-read this and realized that this post is different from the one I referred you to, in that you aren't asking us to go to Scroll to get the book. It does look like a simple recommendation. These are welcome here. I do think it may be helpful to encourage Scroll and Logos to enter into some kind of agreement about publishing those works in Logos.

Especially in light of the ease of publishing into Vyrso, you should work to make publishers aware of Logos. As I understand it, there is no work on the publisher's side beside having an epub version of a book available.

Mark Johnson

Yew, I would love to see this in Logos. I have used it as required reading for a book review in an academic settings and for a Sunday morning bible class resource.