Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church "is an eight volume history of Christianity from the New Testament through the Swiss Reformation (John Calvin). It was written around the time of the American Civil war (1860-ish). It's an excellent resource for church history and would arm someone to defend against 'DaVinci Code' attacks on the historic Christian faith." We have all eight volumes and can be found on the library shelves under the number 270/SCH.

This volume of Schaff' Christian history covers the Swiss Reformation from Zwigli (1484) until, the successor of Calvin, Beza's death (1605).

Schaff provides much interesting information on Calvin and, especially, his unfortunate connection with Servetus (the latter whom Schaff devotes one chapter of close to 22 pages alone.

Three fourths of the book, the last 13 chapters, discusses Calvin and the movement under his name in much detail, and does so, apparently, very objectively.

While outdated, nevertheless, Schaff's final volume, as with all the previous volumes of his Church History, is informative and well worth the read. ( )

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Schaff is a standard from A.D.1 up till 1605, but the reading is very good, and there is no better information. ( )

This is an eight volume history of Christianity from the New Testament through the Swiss Reformation (John Calvin). It was written around the time of the American Civil war (1860-ish). It's an excellent resource for church history and would arm someone to defend against 'DaVinci Code' attacks on the historic Christian faith. It's also very affordable now from cbd.com . ( )