Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Excellent introduction to the history of the church/theology

This book was used for a class I took last year on the history of Christian theology, and I greatly enjoyed this book. Noll manages to take 2000 years of history and center it around 12 major turning points, interweaving ideas and events around these points. He makes it very readable to someone who had not studies the subject before, and presents a new perpective on a number of issues to those who have studied this before. I found it to be a very enjoyable book.The only complaint I have about this book is the lack of discussion of the 20th century. Barth, Lewis, Vatican II, etc. hardly get mentioned. He really should have dealt with this some. As it is, he brings us up to about 1910 or so then leaves us with only a vague and fuzzy vision of where the church has gone from there.Overall grade: A