Joseph T. Richardson

Amazing time travel yarn

Revisado: 02-16-23

One of the best time travel stories I've heard in a while. Compelling and heartfelt. Exciting and original time travel mechanics too.

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A good blend of legal and biographical history

Revisado: 04-15-22

This book is exactly what I was looking for, a good mix of legal and biographical history that explores the lives of two great men and also delves into the important legal and constitutional issues their interactions shaped. The author has biases, but they are not for either Jefferson or Marshall, who are both treated with equal admiration.

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Convincing telling of an excellent, riveting tale

Revisado: 08-24-18

A wonderful telling of an excellent, riveting, sometimes wrenching tale. The narrator *is* Jake Epping, and does all the other voices convincingly. I was transported to the story and full invested.

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A balanced account of the Reformation Era

Revisado: 06-14-17

Dr. Gregory gives an excellent and well-balanced account of the Reformation Era. Rather than a one-sided account favoring a particular side or view, he gives fair and fairly equal treatment to each of three major sects and their movements: the Magisterial Reformers, the followers of Luther and later Calvin; the Anabaptists and the Radical Reformation, and the Catholic Church. Though having a Catholic background himself, Dr. Gregory shows little partisan bias. He acknowledges problems in the Catholic Church which led to the need for reform. All around, he gives an engaging, fascinating, and enjoyable overview, and helps a listener to understand the events of the Reformation Era as well as the major currents and themes that flow through all the various threads.

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Outstanding historian; well-rounded history

Revisado: 02-13-17

This is an excellent, well-rounded course in Christian history I would recommend to any and all of my friends. Speaking as a professing and practicing Christian, a Catholic convert from Evangelicalism, and one with a graduate degree in history, I can say that Luke Timothy Johnson presents a well-rounded and well-balanced account of the history of the faith that should be palatable and beneficial to any Christian, covering with wide breath and remarkable depth both the Eastern and Western traditions. Dr. Johnson is an engaging and eloquent speaker who gives a nearly flawless delivery. By far the greatest strength of the course is the clarity and vividness Dr. Johnson brings to the complex and sometimes arcane landscape of early Christian Christological and Trinitarian heresies: what they were really about and why they mattered. He speaks from a western, Catholic background, but is no Catholic apologist. Catholics will find their general conception of the Church and its worldview validated, but Dr. Johnson takes to task many developments over the course of Christian history that removed the focus and practice of the Church from the pure message of Christ: persecutions over theological difference that eventually resulted in the Inquisition -- not the bloody myth of Protestant polemic, but nonetheless, in his view, a shameful exercise of intolerance; the Crusades, the making of war in the name of Christ; and liturgical accretions that increasingly removed the practice of the faith from the laypeople. Catholics will find their faith in their own institutions examined critically: not everything in the Church today is as it always has been, and not every development was for the better. Protestants will find some of the claims of the early Reformers validated, but perhaps their polemics against the origins and history of the Catholic Church challenged. Personally, the course brought me renewed compassion for my Protestant brethren and for the Reformation: reform was badly needed, as much as we may deplore the way it was carried out and the fragmented state of Christianity today.

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