
The Spreading Flame
The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginnings to the Conversion of the English
Frederick Fyvie Bruce(Author)
Paternoster Press
Published on 1. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-84227-303-6 (ISBN)
Description
"This is the work of a most painstaking student and scholar well abreast of the latest historical research.... It shows abundant evidence of wide and careful study and gives us a concise and very readable account of the origins of the Christian Church, its chequered history, the heresies which challenged it, as well as the development of its worship, discipline and government.... It proves a valuable handbook for the theological student and for the ordinary keen Church member." The English Churchman
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cumbria
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Send The Light
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84227-303-6 (9781842273036)
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Person
F.F. Bruce (1910--1990) was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, England. He wrote more than forty commentaries and other widely used books, including Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free, The Acts of the Apostles, The Gospel of John, and The Message of the New Testament. He served as general editor of The New International Commentary on the New Testament from 1962 to 1990.