GAMECHANGERS
Key Figures in the Christian Church
By Robert Letham
Christian Focus. 195 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 1 781 915 998
Gamechangers? Church history is no kind of game. The 12 ‘key figures’ whose stories are retold here were not playing about.
The first featured, Athanasius, was five times forced into exile during his time as a fourth-century bishop. Nor was it sport for Barth to be dismissed from his teaching post at Bonn in 1935 for refusing to give the Hitler salute at the start of his classes.
