Kevin DeYoung joins Camden Bucey to discuss Church History for Everyone, Volume 1: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation. They consider why Christianity is inseparable from history and how the story of the church testifies to Christ’s promise to build and preserve his people by his Word and Spirit.
Kevin is senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, and associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte. In this volume, he traces the church’s history from AD 70 to 1415 through twenty significant figures and events.
The conversation explores how Christians can remember faithful men and women without lapsing into hagiography—or reducing the past to a catalogue of failures. Camden and Kevin also discuss monasticism, the preservation of learning and liturgy, Protestant retrieval of medieval theologians such as Bernard of Clairvaux, and the figures who will appear in the forthcoming second volume.
Resources
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:50 Christ the Center 1000 summit update
- 12:55 Introducing Church History for Everyone
- 15:51 Conversation with Kevin DeYoung
- 17:30 From Sunday school lectures to a two-volume history
- 20:58 Why Christianity is inseparable from history
- 23:48 Church history as family history
- 26:38 Beyond hagiography and “warts only” history
- 30:57 Choosing characters and telling the church’s story
- 35:30 What Protestants can learn from monasticism
- 39:53 Recovering the medieval church
- 43:59 Previewing volume 2
- 46:53 Conclusion
Participants: Camden Bucey, Kevin DeYoung
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