The radical British freethinker and Liberal politician compresses two thousand years of church history into a single volume, from the earliest sects and the rise of Gentile Christianity through the papacy, the Middle Ages and the Reformation. Robertson writes as a committed sceptic: he treats the founder as a myth, a view most historians reject, and his judgments throughout are those of a polemicist.
A key text of Edwardian rationalism, worth reading as a document of the free-thought movement rather than as neutral history. Download the free EPUB.