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One Stop Shop for Church History

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TheInconsistentChristian

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Good evening,

I'm trying to find a comprehensive book/article of the history on the church. Very basic, surface information that can provide me a good foundation or at least an idea of what it would look like. If you're willing, please drop in this thread or send me a message! Thanks in advance.
 
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The First Seven Ecumenical Councils by Leo Donald Davis covers the first 9 centuries in just enough detail to understand the major theological controversies during that time. There's a free podcast that goes through this book called "At the Intersection of East and West."

The Orthodox Church by Timothy (Kallistos) Ware provides a ~100-page overview of history that covers the 2nd millennium.

For really surface-level information, there are plenty of overviews online. Wikipedia is honestly not a bad place to start.
 
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The Lion Handbooks are pretty good value. "The History of Christianity" is one of them.

The history of Christianity IS the history of the church.

The following link is an advertisment but it gives a brief bio.

WORD Bookstore

www.word.com.au

When I was a new Christian the pastor recommended the Lion Handbook series. He also "knew" that buying too many books would be an issue for me and suggested just sticking to the Lion Handbook series.
 
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Go to the source. Read the post Bible early church leaders writings yourself. What were they concerned about? What did they teach? What didn't they teach? I'll see if I can find the title of the book I was paging thru the other day. It was a compilation of their writings. Some of these compilation type books include writings from people who were not Christians. What were they saying about Christians? What were they not saying about Christians?
 
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Brother - that's the objective. I started reading the epistle of Clement to corinth. But I'd like to know who they were. Thus, understanding the history to identify those. That's why surface level helps just with the foundation of know how we got here.
 
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Blessings, thanks.
 
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