The First Advance : Church History 1 : AD 29-500

by John Foster

Revised Edition by W. H. C. Frend. SPCK TEF Study Guide 5. This introduction to early Church history emphasizes people rather than policies or polemics, and shows Christians in the first five centuries perserving under persecutions and carrying their faith east and south into Asia and Africa as well as westwards into Europe.

Genres: Christian

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

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John Foster (1898- )

Reviews

[Rob Markley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview and story of what little we know of this critical stage of Christianity.

[Torua Tooma]

I want to know about the Church and clearly understand how or when the church was born or given birth