This book explores the theological lessons to be learnt from 2000 years of Christian Church history.

• An exploration of the theological lessons to be learnt from the difficult history of the Christian churches over the past 2,000 years
  
• Opens with an introductory essay on the whole of Church history, making the book suitable for lay readers as well as students
  
• Combines historical, historiographical and theological analysis
  
• Reunites the disciplines of theology and Church history
  
• Concludes that we can only ever perceive a facet of Christianity given our historical and cultural conditioning
  
• Written by a distinguished Church historian.