For For readers wanting a short narrative of the church from AD 70 to Constantine; 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 second part of his popular early church history, from the fall of Jerusalem to Constantine (1951); 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 second of Bruce's three short volumes of church history for Paternoster Press, published in London in 1951 (192 pages) with the subtitle The Progress of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Accession of Constantine, A.D. 70-313. It continues The Dawn of Christianity (1950) through the centuries of persecution to Constantine, and with Light in the West (1952) was combined in 1953 as The Spreading Flame.
