The Modern Church: The Dawn of the Reformation to the Eve of the Third Millennium

An introduction to the history of the Christian church in the modern period, beginning with the changing social, cultural, and religious context of Europe around the year 1500 and tracing the development of the various branches of the Christian faith through the present. An important feature of this study is the integration of American, European, and—to a lesser extent—African and Asian elements of the church's story during the modern period. The scope of the book's approach is broad, rangi...