Philip Schaff's Bible dictionary was a landmark achievement. More than nine hundred pages of invaluable information. This edition is a facsimile edition of the original first edition text complete with all of the maps and illustrations. Lavishly illustrated.

Philip Schaff was a Swiss-born, German-educated theologian and a historian of the Christian Church, who after his education lived and taught in the United States.
The History of the Christian Church is his best-known work and readily available in today's book markets. However, there are jewels of scholarship buried inside its covers that need to be brought out into the light for our modern world. This reprint of his section "the New Testament" will encourage and strengthen those students who may find their battle against the enemies of God's Word discouraging.
Demonstrating that the...

Philip Schaff, the founder of church history in America, was widely celebrated in his later career. Soon after his arrival from Germany, however, his Principle of Protestantism (1845) was stiffly denounced for its favorable attitude toward Roman Catholicism, harsh critique of denominationalism, and theory of historical progress leading to a church that would be both Evangelical and Catholic. Charles Hodge's review of the book provided the most cogent analysis of its implications for American Christianity. Schaff further clarified his understanding of progress in What Is Church History? (1846)...