Dean Peterson in his book A Concise History of Christianity, but such is to be expected in a longer text. Gonzalez is a very readable writer, that is, he isn’t overly technical and writes in a way that is easy to understand, although he does go more in-depth than say R. What follows from this is a 490 page discussion of the progression of Christian history from Christianity’s roots in Judaism up until the period just before the Protestant Reformation, roughly 400BC to around 1600AD. A person wearing tinted glasses can avoid the conclusion that the entire world is tinted only by being conscious of the glasses themselves… Not only is our view of the present colored by our history, but our view of history is also colored by the present and by the future we envision.” The primary reason presented is so that we will better understand our faith and what has influenced it to know that we have been influenced by a certain past which colors our vision and threatens to ‘absolutize’ our personal interpretations, thus: “One way we can avoid this danger is to know the past that colors our vision. Gonzalez begins with an introduction in which he discusses why we should study the history of Christianity.

The first volume covers “The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation.” The Story of Christianity is a two volume history of Christianity by Justo Gonzalez.

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