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College spurred the passion for church history and the vision and mission to disseminate the knowledge among Christians. The vision is simply a scholarly reconstruction of the history of the origin, growth, and development of the early church amidst seas of persecutions and heresies from the apostolic age to the first four hundred years of
"Church History (Volumes 1-3)" by J. H. Kurtz is a comprehensive historical account written in the late 19th century. This scholarly work serves as a text-book of church history, tracing the development of the Christian church from its beginnings through various pivotal epochs.
In Church History, Everett Ferguson explores the development of the church from the days of Jesus to the years prior to the Reformation. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it offers overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish worlds; insights into the church’s relationship to the Roman Empire, with glimpses into pagan attitudes
ISBN: 978-0-615-61045-0. Contents. Introduction. The Christian Church is Born . The Apostle Paul and the Gentile Outreach. A New Era Begins. The New Testament Canon. Roman Persecutions. The Apostolic Fathers . The Spirit of Martyrdom . The Issue of Second Repentance. Heresies and “Heretics” . The Apologists . The Persecution of Severus .
B. Church History is an Aid to Understanding the Present. 1. Why are there so many different groups of believers? 2. Why are there so many different liturgical practices? 3. What developed and survived as doctrine? C. Church History as a Guide. 1. The present is often the product of the past and the seed of the future. 1 Cor 10:6,11; Rom 15:4 2.
Encouraged by the favorable reception of my "History of the Apostolic Church," I now offer to the public a History of the Primitive Church from the birth of Christ to the reign of Constantine, as an independent and complete work in itself, and at the same time as the first volume of a general history of Christianity, which I hope, with the help ...
become possible to teach the history of the Christian Church, for many centuries the greatest institution of Western Europe, in colleges and universities in conjunction with other historical courses. This volume has been prepared at the suggestion of the Amer-ican Society of Church History, and valuable suggestions have