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Church History in Plain Language (Third Edition)

Bruce L. Shelley (Author)

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Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 544
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN#: 9780718025533

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Description: With more than 275,000 copies sold, this is the story of the Church for today's readers.

This third edition improves the most engaging and readable single-volume history of the Church by bringing the story into the twenty-first century. Faced with some astonishing changes in the Islamic world, a global resurgence of Roman Catholicism, the decline of Christianity in the West coupled with the rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity in the southern and eastern hemispheres, readers need a current explanation with intellectual substance that will provide historical context and update readers on all these new developments. The new edition of Church History in Plain Language does that in a stimulating manner, and it promises to be the new standard for readable Church History.

Features include:
* Includes contemporary developments, such as the growth of Christianity in China and the rise of global Islam

Dr. Bruce Shelley makes church history come alive in this classic book that has become not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms over the nation. What separates Dr. Shelley's book from others is its clarity, both of language and organization. Church History in Plain Language treats history as the story of people--their motivations, the issues they grapple with, the decisions they make--and the result is that history reads like a story, almost as dramatic and moving as a novel. Yet there is no fiction here. Dr. Shelley is a respected scholar whose work is painstakingly researched and carefully crafted for historical accuracy.

Church History in Plain Language makes history easy to follow and easy to retain by dividing the Christian story into eight parts, each part one of the great ages of the church:
-The Age of Jesus and the Apostles
-The Age of Catholic Christianity
-The Age of the Christian Roman Empire
-The Christian Middle Ages
-The Age of the Reformation
-The Age of Reason and Revival
-The Age of Progress
-The Age of Ideologies

Now in its twentieth printing, the continuing popularity of this book attests to its success in achieving its purpose--to make church history clear, memorable, and accessible to every reader.

"Graciousness and clarity have never been thick on the ground in the world--nor in the church. Their presence here, as the intellectual and personal gift of a remarkably faithful scholar, is a boon to us all."
--Dr. Mark Noll, Wheaton College
Church History in Plain Language (Third Edition)

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