Originally entitled The Apostolic Church and the Apostasy. The title was changed by the request of Harold Boyer’s daughter, Jan Maddox, who stated that her father always wanted to title the book The Church Through the Ages but submitted to the request of the publisher to entitle it The Apostolic Church and the Apostasy.
While I have studied many, many volumes of history, as well as the writings of such reformers as Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, and others, of course, let me restate that this volume simply is intended to give the average layman a running sketch of the history of the church with the hope of stimulating a deeper interest and concern for the church as God intended it from the beginning.
