Starting with the crucifixion of Jesus and ending with the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelisation, Geoffrey Hanks explains the significance of these 36 events on our church today. He traces several themes through the book such as the collating of the scriptures into 66 books and centuries later the publishing of the King James Version of the Bible.The useful information boxes give further details, for instance 'Son of Man', 'indulgences', 'Calvin at Geneva', and 'The Hebrew Language'