Offering a contextual account of the triumphs and struggles of church history, this much-anticipated volume reveals how the church spread and developed from the Reformation until the present day---including the Renaissance, contributions from Luther and Calvin, the Enlightenment, Puritanism, and the current ecumenical environment in Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. 608 pages, hardcover from Zondervan.

Church history is the story of the greatest community the word has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the people who have made up the church down through the ages. Church History, Volume Two is an account of the ups and downs, the triumphs and struggles, of the Christian movement. It offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from the just prior to the Reformation and through the next five-hundred-plus years into the present-day. This book looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church, detailing the times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, gives primary attention to the history of Christianity in the West (western Europe and North America), but given the global and ecumenical environment of the twenty-first century, it also covers Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

John Woodbridge (PhD, University of Toulouse, France) is research professor of Church History and History of Christian Thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, where he has taught since 1970. He was previously a senior editor of Christianity Today and is the author of Biblical Authority: A Critique of the Rogers/McKim Proposal and coauthor of Letters Along the Way. He is the editor of Great Leaders of the Christian Church and coeditor of works including The Mark of Jesus. Woodbridge is the recipient of four Gold Medallion Awards. Frank A. James III (PhD, Oxford; PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is provost at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He is the author or editor of numerous works on the Reformation and has been a consultant and script writer for a historical documentary film series.

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