This may be the most important book in the series for christians to read and study. Olson helps church pastors and leaders know how to deal with these artificial truthshow to explain that they are not simple confusions or misunderstandings, but are instead counterfeit teachings that plague modernday churches by undermining and dangerously distorting faithful living. The persistence of errors in the church, is intended to introduce nontheologically educated laypeople to the world of ancient and modern heresy. In counterfeit christianity, roger olson describes the curses but also gifts that heresies bring the church. Pocket history of theology 9780830827046 by roger e. In this book, roger olson describes the curses but also gifts that heresies bring the church.
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Counterfeit christianity succinctly outlines eight heresies that continue to creep into the main branches of the historical, biblical, orthodox church. He has written this book to relay the message the lord placed in his spirita call to repentance for the body. He blogs about arminian theology at and is the author of over a dozen books, including counterfeit christianity. Theologian roger olson believes that the history of christian theology should be told as such a story, one replete.
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