num_pages: 888
description: Philip Schaffs History of the Christian Church excels at providing an impressive and instructive historical treatment of the Christian church. This eight volume work begins with the early Church and ends at 1605 with the Swiss Reformation. Schaffs treatment is comprehensive and in depth discussing all the major (and minor!) figures time periods and movements of the Church. He includes many footnotes maps and charts; he evens provides copies of original texts in his treatment. One feature of the History of the Christian Church that readers immediately notice is just how beautifully written it isespecially in comparison to other texts of a similar nature. Simply put Schaffs prose is lively and engaging. As one reader puts it these volumes are history written with heart and soul. Although at points the scholarship is slightly outdated overall History of the Christian Church is great for historical referencing. Countless people have found History of the Christian Church useful. Whether for serious scholarship sermon preparation daily devotions or simply edifying reading History of the Christian Church comes highly recommended. Tim Perrine CCEL Staff Writer This edition features an artistic cover a new promotional introduction an index of scripture references links for scripture references to the appropriate passages and a hierarchical table of contents which makes it possible to navigate to any part of the book with a minimum of page turns.
language: English
title: History of the Christian Church: Apostolic Christianity A.D. 1-100
publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company