Weaver has retrieved from obscurity the rich treasures of Christian tradition from the 1st through 20th centuries and made them meaningfully accessible for preachers, teachers, worship and study leaders, students, devotional readers, and persons interested in the history of the church. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced by Article, Scripture, Person, Contributor, Topic, and Time Period, these handy illustrations help your teaching mine the depths of Christian history.

C. Douglas Weaver holds the Barney Averitt Chair of Christianity and was, at the time of publication, chairman of the Division of Religious and Philosophical Studies at Brewton-Parker College. A graduate of Mississippi College (B.A.) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.; Ph.D.), he has taught church history at Bluefield College in Virginia.

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