Download or read book There Once Was a Serpent written by Richard Kieckhefer and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously discovered set of seventy-four limericks. Readers who already know the history of theology will read about it from an unfamiliar perspective ? and beginners will learn the basics in an accessible form. The limericks range from Gnostic theology through to the Reformation, and on to Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. If all of this seems unfamiliar, the accompanying text should help sort it all out.