History of the Christian church vol. 5

by Philip Schaff

Hardcover, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

REF 270 SCH v.5

Series

History of the Christian Church

Genres

Religion & Spirituality

History

General Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Description

Philip Schaff (1819 1893) wrote one of the finest histories of the church available. His eight-volume work, which covers Christian history from the apostles to the Swiss Reformation, incorporates discussion of ideas and ideals throughout the history of the church with the requisite facts and figures for each period of history. Each volume contains maps, charts, notes, bibliographies, and an index."

User reviews

LibraryThing member Jim-Per

Schaff is a standard from A.D.1 up till 1605, but the reading is very good, and there is no better information.

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LibraryThing member GrinningDwarf

This is an eight volume history of Christianity from the New Testament through the Swiss Reformation (John Calvin). It was written around the time of the American Civil war (1860-ish). It's an excellent resource for church history and would arm someone to defend against 'DaVinci Code' attacks on

the historic Christian faith. It's also very affordable now from cbd.com .

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LibraryThing member atdCross

This volume of Schaff' Christian history covers the Swiss Reformation from Zwigli (1484) until, the successor of Calvin, Beza's death (1605).

Schaff provides much interesting information on Calvin and, especially, his unfortunate connection with Servetus (the latter whom Schaff devotes one chapter

of close to 22 pages alone.

Three fourths of the book, the last 13 chapters, discusses Calvin and the movement under his name in much detail, and does so, apparently, very objectively.

While outdated, nevertheless, Schaff's final volume, as with all the previous volumes of his Church History, is informative and well worth the read.

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