Church History in Plain Language: Third Edition

This third edition improves the most engaging and readable single-volume history of the Church by bringing the story into the twenty-first century. Faced with some astonishing changes in the Islamic world, a global resurgence of Roman Catholicism, the decline of Christianity in the West coupled with the rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity in the southern and eastern hemispheres, readers need a current explanation with intellectual substance that will provide historical context and update readers on all these new developments. The new edition of "Church History in Plain Language" does that in a stimulating manner, and it promises to be the new standard for readable Church History.

Features include: Includes contemporary developments, such as the growth of Christianity in China and the rise of global Islam