![]() ![]() It is a history of the deeds of the spirit in and through the men and women who have gone before in the faith. ![]() The history of the church, while showing all the characteristics of human history, is much more than the history of an institution or movement, Gonzalez stresses. Gonzalez skillfully weaves in relevant details from the lives of prominent figures from the apostles to John Wycliffe, tracing out core theological issues and developments as reflected in the lives and struggles of leading thinkers within the various traditions of the church. ![]() Historian Justo Gonzalez shows how various social, political, and economic movements affected Christianity's internal growth. This informative, interesting, and consistently readable narrative history brings alive the people, dramatic events, and ideas that shaped the first fifteen centuries of the church's life and thought - including major events outside of Europe, such as the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the New World. ![]()
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