Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Outlines of Church History
The present work is intended to supply a want which most historical teachers must have felt - that of a clear and suggestive outline of general Church History for intelligent readers. Such a manual is Professor Rudolf Sohm's Kirchengeschichte im Grundriss. Short as it is, it is neither a meagre sketch nor a confused mass of facts, but a masterly outline of Church History from the first ages to our own times, combining a lawyer's precision and a historian's insight into the meaning of events with a philosopher's sense of the unity of history and a Christian's conviction that the Kingdom of God is spiritual.
The translation is made from the eighth German edition, which the author has brought well up to date. His vigorous and often epigrammatic sentences are far from easy to render into flowing English, and the work has cost the accomplished translator no little time and care.
We are becoming used to the transformation of Christian thought by the advance of science during the last two hundred years.
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