THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN
AND IRELAND:
From the First Century to the Twenty–First
By Gerald Bray
Apollos. 693 pages. £39.99
ISBN 978 1 787 941 209
It used to be said that, along with the Bible, every Protestant household in Britain would also possess Fox’s Book of Martyrs and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Here is another book that should be on the shelves of every Christian in Britain and Ireland.
When we are sometimes rightly concerned with the perilous state of the church in this country, it is encouraging to see that, through the ups and downs of the Christian faith in the British Isles over the last two Millennium, Christ is building His church in the good and the bad times.