xi 501 pages, indexed. The jacket is rubbed and torn with loss to the tail of the spine; there are the intermittent "Perry Theological Library" scattered stamps throughout the book, else a clean and solid copy in an unattractive cover. ""A history of doctrines of the Early Church, written and arranged with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar. Canon Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, and from the end of the apostolic age to the council of Chalcedon." (Bloomsbury edition)