Two of my seminary church history professors wrote textbooks that released this fall:
- David Beale. Historical Theology in-Depth: Themes and Contexts of Doctrinal Development Since the First Century. 2 vols. [Volume 1 | Volume 2] Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 2013. 532 + 505 pp. (“Look inside” here and here.)
- John D. Woodbridge and Frank A. James III. Church History, Volume 2: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day; The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 864 pp. 25-page PDF sample. (This is the sequel to Everett Ferguson’s volume 1.)
David Beale taught me at Bob Jones University, and John Woodbridge taught me at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
In God’s providence I was able to take classes from them after they had taught their subjects for decades, and I loved it. I thank God for them, and I warmly commend their church history surveys.
