Dr. Bruce Shelley makes church history come alive in this classic book that has become not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms over the nation.  What separates Dr. Shelley's book from others is its clarity, both of language and organization.  Church History in Plain Language treats history as the story of people-their motivations, the issues they grapple with, the decisions they make-and the results is that history reads like a story, almost as dramatic and moving as a novel.  Yet there is no fiction here.

This book is used as the text book for course CH-442 Church History 2.