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PROTESTANT BACKGROUNDS IN HISTORY by J. Minton Batten

PROTESTANT BACKGROUNDS IN HISTORY

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Publisher: Abingdon-Cokesbury

This is a book designed primarily for study and discussion groups in Protestant churches. It is a concise but comprehensive survey of the historical backgrounds of the Protestant Churches covering our indebtedness to Judaism and first century Christianity, Christianity in the Graeco-Roman world, the achievements and failures of the medieval Church, the Reformation, Continental and English Protestantism, American Protestantism and, finally, Protestant progress in Christian cooperation. Suitable for church groups of any Protestant denomination.