Twenty Questions That Shaped World Christian History

The questions of Christianity are perennial. For example: How are Judaism and Christianity related? Are Jesus and the Holy Spirit God? Is the end of the world imminent? How should we relate faith and reason? In this innovative work, Derek Cooper tells the story of Christian history by presenting the twenty questions (one for each century ) that shaped the Christian church throughout the world.

The result is a book that narrates the exciting history of Christianity from a global perspective by means of simple questions and concerns that still face the church today.

Each century of world Christian history is explored by means of one question that attempts to encapsulate the central themes and concerns of that century for Christianity. Coverage of each century is sensitive to world regions and theological and cultural concerns that are often overlooked and neglected in books that are oriented in a more Western way.

Download the free Twenty Questions That Shaped World Christian History Study Guide This guide is designed to be simple and straightforward. There are three parts to each chapter:

A general introduction or outline to the chapter with highlights and helpful supplements to the content discussed

Questions to Contemplate. open-ended questions that will allow you to process what you are reading

Questions to Ascertain. after getting intellectually warmed up with the open-ended Questions to Contemplate, these questions are knowledge based. They may require reading an excerpt, viewing something online, or consulting an encyclopedia. These types of questions are designed to unpack the historical or theological context of each chapterHappy reading

Derek Cooper is associate professor of world Christian history at Biblical Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books, including Exploring Church History (Fortress, 2014).