For For readers wanting a short narrative of the church from Constantine to the conversion of the English; most will read it now as part of The Spreading Flame.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
The third part of his popular early church history, from Constantine to the conversion of the English (1952); later part of The Spreading Flame.
How it proceeds
Philosophic0 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical5 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The third of Bruce's three short volumes of church history for Paternoster Press, published in London in 1952 (160 pages) with the subtitle The Progress of Christianity from the Accession of Constantine to the Conversion of the English. It completes the story begun in The Dawn of Christianity (1950) and The Growing Day (1951), and the three were issued together in 1953 as The Spreading Flame.
