Description
Church History offers a unique contextual view of ways the Christian church spread and developed. It did so, no longer in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. Church History looks closely on the integral link between the history of the sector and that of the church.
Volume One explores the advance of the church from the times of Jesus to the years prior to the Reformation. Stuffed 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 toward Christians; the place of art and architecture, literature and philosophy, both sacred and secular; and a lot more, spanning the time from the primary during the thirteenth centuries.