Church History (Volumes 1-3)
Church History, in three volumes, is the English translation by John Macpherson of the textbook by the German theologian J. H. Kurtz, which first appeared in 1849 and went through many editions. It is arranged in numbered sections and covers the whole span of the Christian church: the preparation in Judaism and the pagan world, the apostolic age, the persecutions and the apologists, the councils and controversies of the early centuries, the medieval church in East and West, the papacy, monasticism and scholasticism, the Reformation and the confessions that followed it, and the churches of the modern period down to Kurtz's own day. Dense with names, dates and bibliography, it served for decades as a standard reference for students of theology. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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