Dr. Hannah is an absolute institution at Dallas Theological Seminary and a master of Church History. I took every class that I could from him and was excited that he would write a survey of church history.

There are two volumes in this set. The first volume covers the history of the church from the end of the book of Acts all the way to modern day. He does try to make an effort to talk about the global church, but it does have a very Western focus. His second volume starts with the American Colonies and goes to the modern day, but is focused on the American church.

Both of these volumes are incredibly helpful and useful. Even as someone who has taken lots of graduate level classes in Church History I learned a lot from these volumes. However, they are accessible for the lay person as well. I'd recommend them for anyone interested in getting a great survey of church history.

The books themselves have high quality paper and are well made. The pages are filled with pictures, graphs, and other illustrations. Most of them are great, but there were some that I couldn't understand what they meant. If you are someone who hates illustrations and pictures, then you may want to pass on these. I also noticed a number of mistakes where the wrong name was used, or two groups were confused for each other. I never notice things like this, but the mistakes were glaring enough that it made a few paragraphs hard to read.