Church History, Volume One: From Christ to the Pre-Reformation: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Everett Ferguson (PhD, Harvard) is professor emeritus of Bible and distinguished scholar-in-residence at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, where he taught church history and Greek. He is the author of numerous works, includingBackgrounds of Early Christianity, Early Christians Speak, andBaptism in the Early Church: History, Theology,andLiturgy in the First Five Centuries. He was also general editor of the two-volumeEncyclopediaof Early Christianity.