Pocket Dictionary of Church History

Pocket Dictionary of Church History

Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncles and scrapbooks of photos thrown in. Someone needs to point out what's important and remind you of the facts as you learn to tell the story on your own.

This book is designed to help students identify the people, places, events, movements and ideas that checker the story of the church through the ages. Among the three-hundred-plus definitions you'll find: terms, leaders and theologians, "isms", places and events, councils, etc. Here is an indispensable glossary, the perfect companion to your study and reading of church history.