Church History

Everett Ferguson writes from the perspective that church history is the story of the greatest movement and the greatest community the world has known. It is a human story of a divinely called people who wanted to live by a divine revelation. As a participant in the heritage of Western church history, the author necessarily gives more attention to the history of Christianity in the West, but has tried to give adequate attention to other expressions of Christianity. History necessarily entails some attention to names, external events, and the sequence of development, but the student should look beyond these things to the religious life of the people involved and grasp the perspective that this is the story of people. Such details are necessary to the telling of the story, but the real story itself is the people who were involved. Out of the conviction that the proper way to approach contemporary problems is historically, the author of this textbook hopes to bring a historical consciousness to its readers.Ferguson, Everett is the author of 'Church History', published 2007 under ISBN 9780310257431 and ISBN 0310257433.