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By Mark Ellingsen. Harrisburg, Penn.: Trinity Press International, 1999. x + 308 pp.; x + 433 pp. $27.00; $29.00 paper.

Mark Ellingsen intends these two volumes to be aids in ministry and to function as textbooks for those interested in the history of the Christian Church. The undertaking is formidable given his ambition to provide a narrative account that acknowledges what the author sees as the future of Christianity as a "minority community" in North America's "post-C...