A society with no grasp of its history is like a person without a memory‎.‎ This is particularly true of the history of ideas‎.‎ This book is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have shaped Christian history and the culture of much of the world‎.‎ Writing in a lively‎,‎ accessible style‎,‎ Jonathan Hill takes us on an enlightening journey from the first to the twenty first centuries‎.‎ He shows us the key Christian thinkers through the ages ‎- ranging from Irenaeus‎,‎ Origen‎,‎ Augustine and Aquinas through to Luther‎,‎ Wesley‎,‎ Kierkegaard and Barth ‎- placing them in their historical context and assessing their contribution to the development of Christianity‎.‎