How to Read Church History Volume 2 from the Reformation to the Present Day

This second volume takes up the story where the first left off. Like its predecessor it has three features which make it different from other histories so that it is aimed at the widest possible audience.First it does not separate church history from the wider history of the world in which it is set. Christians live in that wider world and political social and economic developments often determine the life of the church.Secondly it provides direct quotations from the written sources.To make sure that the account covers British and American as well as French and European history an English-speaking historian joins the French author.`The approach is ecumenical covering with good balance the full range of denominational developments in the Western church and its missionary outreach . . . In general this is a clear well-written account . . . the language is accessible not only to an adult but also to a student readership' (Expository Times).