The History of Christianity

Jonathan Hill has been re-writing the Lion Handbook series. These are text books and reference books. In the past they have been extremely boring in their style.

Jonathan however is an absolutely gifted writer. The books are now in modern language and he has a very funny sense of humour in his style.

The History of Christianity provides a readable and interesting overview of the history of the church. I think there is a lot we can learn from studying where our church roots have come from. One thing that strikes me is that some of these big name people of the past had what we consider now, some fairly whacked out ideas. I wonder what people will think of some things we hold to in 300 odd years time.

I guess when we read books like this we are trying understand better what God's will is for our lives. We try to learn from our forefathers successes and mistakes. We also do this from our own experiences and particularly our own engagement with the Bible (and the collective engagement of our wider church family).

Anyway... this is a great book. Even is you find history boring, you will enjoy this book because of all the little funny comments splattered all the way through it.

Oh... and it is cheap for a hard covered 550 page glossy text book.. only $70