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The body of the work is "a narrative of the prophet Joseph Smith"; [1] most of the text was written by scribes rather than by Smith. The parts of the work attributed to Smith were either dictated by Smith to a scribe or consist of a secretary or historian independently outlining Smith's activities and statements for a given time period. [2]
Hughes, Philip (1935-1947), A History of The Church: An Introductory Study, New York: Sheed and Ward (3 volumes) [3] Volume I: The Church And The World In Which The Church Was Founded; Volume II: The Church And The World The Church Created. Augustine To Aquinas; Volume III: The Revolt Against The Church. Aquinas To Luther.
The American church history series, consisting of a series of denominational histories published under the auspices of the American Society of Church History; Date and time of digitizing 13:20, 16 September 2008
An 1842 edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by ...
The codex, the ancestor of modern books, was used by first-century Christians, but the Egyptian church likely invented the papyrus codex during the next decades. [ 39 ] At the Council of Jerusalem , (c. 49), the Jerusalem church gathered to address whether the increasing numbers of non-Jews needed to follow Jewish law. [ 40 ]
Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception. Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritual side of the history of civilized people ever since our Master's coming". [ 1 ]
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For over 50 years, Joseph Fielding Smith's Essentials in Church History was issued as a popular single-volume history of the LDS Church. After Smith's death in 1972, LDS Church and Deseret Book officials asked the church's Historical Department to write a new single-volume history to replace Essentials in Church History and cover more recent events, while using new sources available in the ...