The History of the Church

Renowned publicist and specialist in the history of the Christian Church Andrei Zaitsev invites you to take a journey through time and space to see the Church through the fates of its people — great and ordinary, saints and sinners.... Relying on historical evidence and scholarly sources, the author addresses many difficult topics, such as the holiness and cruelty of Roman emperors, the war of Christian crusaders against Byzantine Christians, the Old Believer schism in Russia, and the persecution of the Church during the Soviet era. The book will help not only to learn about the two-thousand-year history of the Church but also to find answers to pressing questions faced by Christians today. Approved for distribution by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church IS R16-603-0118