![]() ![]() Gonzalez takes the political heroes, giants, and villains of the past and delineates their influence based on how they responded to Christianity. This particular book covers roughly the last five hundred years of religious history, which may sound boring to some, but really casts a whole new perspective on the same history we have all studied before. ![]() It may help his case that he litters his book with pictures and paintings, but I recall many of my grade school and high school history books doing the same, and they never interested me as much as Gonzalez’s books have. Gonzalez writes with such an informative yet nearly conversational style that he manages to bring what would otherwise be dry, ancient facts into a place of modern interest. Thus it thrilled me to discover that for my second course in church history, my textbook was Gonzalez’s Volume II. I, so enthralling that I actually found myself at times forgetting that it was a history book at all. During my first church history course, I found my textbook, Justo Gonzalez’s Story, Vol. ![]()
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