This is an excellent survey of the history of Christianity during New Testament times. It will be very helpful to the student of the New Testament who is interested in discovering how the various wordings for the early church may be woven into a consistent pattern portraying the development of the Christian faith in its early stages. Readers must be prepared to accept the basic conclusions of modern scholarship with respect to the New Testament. But all such will find, brought out of the confusion which the scholars often produce in lay minds, an orderly and logical story of the way Christianity began and developed.