The Medieval Church John Lynch Summary

After reading, “The Medieval Church,” by John H. Lynch, I had discovered many interesting facts that I had not learned about before. It was interesting to learn about the church and its beginnings, especially since I attend to church every week. Also, the importance that the church had in the countries, which has obviously changed drastically in cultures or countries. I was also fascinated by the words that the authors used for this book because even though it was non-fiction, his choice of language allowed the reader to feel and understand what was going on throughout the entire book. In the beginning we see how the author explain it’s thesis through ancient Christianity and how it all started. The book does not mention the times where Christ
He starts with his diction, which is a great strength since the Europeans did not use the same sophisticated language we use today. The focus he had on these words allowed us to want to keep scrolling through the different pages of the book and keep captivating us more and more through the interesting diction. His second strength are facts. The logos and the way that he states fact is interesting, because it allows the audience member to think before being shocked by the information. Regardless on how boring the history might be, I found it interesting, specially since we can always find a way to relate this to our lives. A weakness I had noticed though was that his choice of words might not always have been the appropriate. I felt that if he was more sophisticated in the more serious part on the development of the church he would have been more understandable. It was very interesting to read this book, but there were a few parts were the author seemed to struggle and try to capture the audience’s attention. In the end, he closed the book extremely well, even if I had thought that he was not going to be able to do that so well due to the subject of his