Here is a comprehensive one-volume reference work that traces the development of the Christian church. More than a million words in 4,800 articles lead through 2,000 years of church history and show how musicians and missionaries, seers and soldiers, kings and councils, poets and persecutors, humanists and heretics have all, for better or worse, made a contribution to the heritage of our faith.
More than 180 scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other nations have contributed their expertise, incorporating recent research, archaeological discoveries, and specialized studies. Crossreferences and bibliographies of significant works enhance this diction-ary as a basic source book and study tool.