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Boer offers a reliable introduction to the history of the early church, providing background on the world into which the church was born, as he surveys the life of the church from the ministry of Jesus to AD 600. He examines the effects of persecution and heresy on the church and explains the role of several key church leaders. The author elucidates the church’s ongoing struggle to formulate...

In 265 B.C., five hundred years after its founding, Rome was master of the Italian peninsula. It then reached out westward across the sea. In less than a hundred years it had conquered the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, the powerful state of Carthage in North Africa, and much of Spain. Thereupon it turned eastward and northward. It conquered all the remaining lands around the Mediterranean Sea, all of Gaul to the north, and parts of modern Germany. In the course of this expansion, Palestine
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