An inclusive church history that pays special attention to minorities, including the role of women, from Christian origins to the dawn of the Reformation.

This is the second in a two-volume inclusive church history that pays special attention to Christianity in the southern hemisphere, Eastern Orthodoxy, the church among minority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history. Beginning with an introduction that situates the Reformers within a medieval milieu, the present volume moves through five-hundred years of history to the present, concluding with the question of whether today's church is a liberating church or a church in decay.

Through both volumes in this set, Mark Ellingsen presents church history not...