In the Year of Our Lord: Reflections on Twenty Centuries of Church History, by Sinclair B. Ferguson. Reviewed by Douglas J. Kuiper.
This review examines Sinclair Ferguson's accessible panoramic overview of twenty centuries of church history, organized by century with selections of significant events, persons, and theological issues. The reviewer highlights Ferguson's demonstration that sovereign grace—and opposition to it—represents the central theological struggle throughout church history, from the Pelagian controversy through the Reformation and beyond. The book is recommended as an easy-to-read introduction to church history suitable for teenagers and adults seeking to understand God's sovereign direction of His church.
In the Year of Our Lord: Reflections on Twenty Centuries of Church History, by Sinclair B. Ferguson. Sanford, FL: Reformation Trust Publishing, 2018. Hardcover $18.00; digital $9.00. 229 pages. [Reviewed by Prof. Douglas Kuiper.] This book "is not a history of the church" (4), but a "panorama" (7) of her history. Taking the church's history one century at a time (twenty centuries, twenty chapters), Ferguson relates the two or three most significant church-historical events or persons in that...
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