Church History in Plain Language, Fifth Edition: The Story of the Church for Today's Readers

This is the story of the church for today's readers. Bruce & Shelley's history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. For this fifth edition, Marshall Shelley assembled a team of historians, historical theologians, and editors to revise and update his father's classic text. The new edition adds important stories of the development of Christianity in Asia, India, and Africa, both in the early church as well as in the twentieth and twenty-first ce...