This book, "Church History: From Jesus to the Reformation", by historian Dr Deslee Campbell, achieves what its title claims. It is an honest, helpful, informative, scholarly overview of the sweep of events as Christianity unfolded from its origins to that period called the Reformation: a short period of revolution that opened the way for today's Church landscape to be created. This book is an ideal college text-book for courses in Church History but differs from most in the attention it gives to the Eastern half of the Christian World during that period: the Byzantine Church. Its extensive bibliography will point students to online sources and its lengthy index will be of great benefit for students' research. English readers will love the attention given to the Celtic Church and women readers will appreciate seeing great Christian women of history being given their rightful place in the story of the Church.
