The Church of Our Fathers

by Roland H. Bainton

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B002A27Q30
• Release Date: January 1950
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Church history primer

Roland Bainton is an excellent historian who has a deep understanding of Church history. In this short book he presents the highlights so that any reader can get a nice overview of the Church. It is quite a task to explain 2000 years of history in a little over 200 pages, but Bainton is one of the few who can pull off this task with great success. For those who find history boring, this book will be a nice surprise. It is well packaged. I particularly like this book because it blends the simple facts with personal accounts, poems, songs, and even some art. I highly recommend it for anyone hoping to get a solid primer about the Church's history. For those who want more depth (to include source material references, etc.) this is not the right book, although it would still be an enjoyable read.

Short, sweet, illuminating . . .

If you want the overview of the history of the Christian Church by a writer of great skill and sincerity, this is the right book for you. No footnotes. Not a lot of scholarly depth. But what it does have is a lively prose style and a very good selection of events to tell the story of the Church. Christians should know at least something of the history of the Church. Bainton's book will serve as an excellent starting place.