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Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Written by Mark A. Noll
Narrated by James Anderson Foster
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In this popular introduction to church history, now in its third edition, Mark Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western experience.
Now organized around fourteen key moments in church history, this well-received text provides contemporary Christians with a fuller understanding of God as he has revealed his purpose through the centuries. This new edition includes a new preface; updates throughout the book; revised "further readings" for each chapter; and two new chapters, including one spotlighting Vatican II and Lausanne as turning points of the recent past.
Students in academic settings and church adult education contexts will benefit from this one-semester survey of Christian history.
Now organized around fourteen key moments in church history, this well-received text provides contemporary Christians with a fuller understanding of God as he has revealed his purpose through the centuries. This new edition includes a new preface; updates throughout the book; revised "further readings" for each chapter; and two new chapters, including one spotlighting Vatican II and Lausanne as turning points of the recent past.
Students in academic settings and church adult education contexts will benefit from this one-semester survey of Christian history.
Author
Mark A. Noll
Mark A. Noll is research professor of history at Regent College. He is the author of several books, including The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very informative. At times it can be a little dry but the way it is organized makes the information easy to retain. I especially enjoyed the first half of the book as she gives detailed information that is often neglected by the usual surveys early Christian history. The latter half is very encouraging, to see the expansion of Christianity on a worldwide scale and the persistent efforts of missionaries.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable. Definitely written by a mainline or evangelical Protestant, but not unfair to Catholicism. Definitely doesn't waste any pages on the ugly aspects of Christendom, but there are plenty of books for those stories. Gets a little windy on certain points; spends a good amount of space in quoting the faithful as historical sources fond of themselves.
My least favorite aspect was his treatment of the history of missionary work in colonial-era indigenous populations as almost strictly a good thing. This seems a bit ethnocentric to say the least; distorted may be more accurate.