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Hitting the Holy Road: A Guided Tour Of Christian History From The Early Church To The Reformation
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Stuart Coulton | Inter-Varsity Press
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Stuart Coulton | Inter-Varsity Press
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This book invites you on a journey through some of the regions and cities which have played a pivotal role in Christian history down through the ages. Along the way it provides you with an overview of the history of the church - warts and all - together with reflections on the lessons we may learn from the past.
Stuart Coulton's lively and understandable survey covers the first fifteen centuries of Christian history, centred on Europe, and includes numerous photographs, timelines and text boxes. Each chapter contains a short introduction on the historical location which provides a feel for the place today, a discussion of the story of the church during the relevant period, and reflections to stimulate thought and discussion.
"Written in a winsome style, this volume affords a very readable and authoritative guide to the history of the Christian churches... this is critically important knowledge we need in order to live out our Christian lives in an informed and effective manner."
- From the foreword by John D. Woodbridge
I LOVED this book! The chapters are super short, so it's very readable. It starts off with a brief description of a location in the current day, which I loved. Then covers a moment in history, which was very interesting but also often quite disturbing and so the thing that I thought was a real strength of the book (I personally benefited a lot from it) was the short reflection concluding each chapter. The reflection section helped me to be able to work out how I'm meant to think about things that have happened in church history that aren't quite right or are downright terrible. I understand that the book has a trajectory to travel towards the Reformation, but my request or critique would be that I would have loved more (!) and I particularly would have liked it to have delved in to the African history of early Christianity. I would (and do) highly recommend this book. I do think it's an accessible and engaging introduction to church history (I'm a novice). I'm intending to re-read it in a year or two because I'm sure I'll get more out of it (or recall more) with a second read.
I LOVED this book! The chapters are super short, so it's very readable. It starts off with a brief description of a location in the current day, which I loved. Then covers a moment in history, which was very interesting but also often quite disturbing and so the thing that I thought was a real strength of the book (I personally benefited a lot from it) was the short reflection concluding each chapter. The reflection section helped me to be able to work out how I'm meant to think about things that have happened in church history that aren't quite right or are downright terrible. I understand that the book has a trajectory to travel towards the Reformation, but my request or critique would be that I would have loved more (!) and I particularly would have liked it to have delved in to the African history of early Christianity. I would (and do) highly recommend this book. I do think it's an accessible and engaging introduction to church history (I'm a novice). I'm intending to re-read it in a year or two because I'm sure I'll get more out of it (or recall more) with a second read.
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