Bruce L. Shelley - Church History in Plain Language
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Church History in Plain Language is just plain good. No, make that great accessible, reader friendly, and interesting. A superb overview of the churchs story. Especially with the addition of recent historical developments, its the first book I recommend to those newly curious about the history of our faith.
Mark Galli, former editor in chief, Christianity Today; author of biographies on Francis of Assisi and Karl Barth
Church history is a dynamic drama that we find ourselves participating in. Faced with new challenges today, we discover ancient wisdom in those who have gone before. By focusing on overlooked storylines and highlighting forgotten figures, Marshall Shelley updates and enriches this already classic text, making it particularly poignant for our age. We gain a vision of the remarkable global rise of Christianity and the revolutionary way it elevated and integrated women and men from every nation, tribe, and tongue into Gods redemptive story.
The Rev. Dr. Glenn Packiam, associate senior pastor, New Life Church, Colorado Springs
Nearly four decades ago Bruce Shelley penned his magnum opus, Church History in Plain Language. It quickly acquired popular acclaim for how accessible and enjoyable it was to read. Along the way it became a personal favorite of mine as well as of the innumerable students Ive had in class over the years. Now we are blessed to have this new edition that records the ongoing development, influence, and expansion of the church over two millennia. If you want a stimulating journey through the rich history of Christianity, this is the one book you must read.
Scott Wenig, professor of applied theology, Denver Seminary
Detailed and thorough while also sweeping and comprehensive, this fifth edition preserves the simple and accessible style of its predecessors while introducing new and updated materials that truly make this a world Christian history. Ample illustrations bring history to life, brief profiles introduce readers to their brothers and sisters in faith, and suggested reading lists point out avenues for further research. Christian history needs to belong to everybody. This book will help it do just that.
The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Woodruff Tait, editor, Christian History magazine
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Church History in Plain Language
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To my students in church history classes who pressed the question of significance
O ften in casual conversation, when people learn where I work, they ask, So how long have you been at Denver Seminary? I respond, Well, there are two answers to that question. I joined the faculty in 2016. But I first arrived at Denver Seminary in 1957 when I was three years oldbecause thats when my dad joined the faculty.
You see, I was able to observe the entirety of Bruce Shelleys teaching career, from his arrival as a newly minted PhD from the University of Iowa until his death in 2010. Granted, in those early years, I was too young to grasp the content of his church history classes, but I knew that his students respected him, and many have told me that my dad was their favorite professor. That makes an impression on a kid! At home at our dinner table, conversations usually melded our two worlds: history and sportsMartin Luther and Mickey Mantle, Menno Simons and Roger Maris. Yes, Dad was a historian and a Yankees fan. Family vacations inevitably included historic sites: Jamestown, Williamsburg, Cumberland Gap, Bostons Freedom Trail, Lexington Green, Cane Ridge, the courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee. Later my wife, Susan, and I hosted a tour of sites of the Reformation with Dad as guide: Wittenberg, Wartburg, Leipzig, Constance, Geneva. You couldnt travel with Dad without getting a sense that you were surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses who had walked this very ground centuries earlier, and we are still experiencing the effects of their lives. As a teacher and a preacher, he brought that immediacy to his students, to his congregations, and yes, to readers of this book.
Dad was energetic and people centered. History for him wasnt dull. It was not just a string of dates and isms. It wasnt merely an academic subject; it was people, in different times and places, passionately trying to express what was true and good and right. How that was lived out and opposed and fought for over the centuries is an epic drama that has affected everyone on earth. For Dad, church history is the ongoing story of people and a cause. That cause is the ecclesia, the gathering and scattering of Gods people that we call the church. It is a story that is still being written more than two thousand years after it began.
I was a student at Denver Seminary from 1979 to 1982, when the first edition of this book was being written. When I was a student in two of Dads church history classes, one of our texts was the initial draft of this book, distributed chapter by chapter on photocopied pages.
After graduating from the seminary, I became an editor at Christianity Today, where I worked for thirty-four years, mostly on Leadership Journal, documenting the state of the art in Christian ministry, and I also edited, for a time, Christian History magazine, a surprise and delight for my dad. The history I learned from Bruce Shelley served me well. At CT we sometimes reminded ourselves that we were writing the first rough draft of church history. Its a tumultuous and ongoing story of innovation, conflict, drift, repentance, renewal, victory, failure, and ultimately, an imperfect but ultimately prevailing demonstration of faith and hope and love.
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