THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS &
THE BIRTH OF EUROPE
By Leigh Churchill. Paternoster. 273 & 285 pages. £9.99 each
ISBN 1 84227 080 X and 1 84227 081 8
The Blood of Martyrs and The Birth of Europe are the first two of four books by Leigh Churchill on the history of the Christian church. They cover up to AD 397 and from AD 398 to 999 respectively.
Leigh Churchill will strike a note with many Christians when he says: 'Church history can be a forbidding subject. A dry catalogue of councils and theologians must always seem rather uninspiring... It is the author's conviction that a great story can live forever in the imagination, while a string of dates will be as soon forgotten as learnt.'
