A History of the Christian Church (4th Edition) - Softcover

Walker, Williston; Norris, Richard A.; Lotz, David N.; Handy, Robert Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0024238708 ISBN 13: 9780024238702

Publisher: Pearson, 1985

Synopsis

Examines the early Christian community, Gnosticism, the Catholic Church, the influence of the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Reformation, and modern Christianity

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Since [the third edition], continuing historical research and methodological changes have led to important new discoveries and to fresh interpretations of the earlier periods, necessitating a much more thorough revision. This fourth edition undertakes this. The basic outline of Walker's original text, previously modified only for the last period, has proved to be sound, and with some emendations has been generally followed again, but there has been extensive reconception, recasting, and rewriting of the content in many sections, incorporating the result of recent scholarly work in these areas.

About the Author:

Williston Walker was born in Portland, Maine, July 1, 1860, the son of a distinguished Congregational minister. He received his A. B. degree from Amherst College in 1883, was graduated from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1886 and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Leipzig in 1888. He succeeded Woodrow Wilson as associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr College. He later taught church history at Hartford Theological Seminary. In 1901 Yale University called him to succeed George Park Fisher as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, a position which he held until his death in 1922. The Reformation, Ten New England Leaders, Great Men of the Christian Church, and A History of the Christian Church are among his distinguished works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0024238708
• ISBN 13: 9780024238702
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 756