Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0141021896
From a prize-winning author, this book charts the course of Christianity from ancient history onwards.
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451688512
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Lion Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780310262701
Filled with full-color photos and illustrations, this volume covers the complete history of the Christian faith. Contributors cover the full sweep of Christian history from the time of Jesus, through the church fathers and European history, and spreading throughout the globe on up to today.
Author : Carter Lindberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 140514887X
Charting the rise and development of Christianity, Carter Lindberg has succeeded in writing a concise and compelling history of the world’s largest religion. He spans over 2,000 years of colorful incident to give an authoritative history of Christianity for both the general reader and the beginning student. Ranges from the missionary journeys of the apostles to the tele-evangelism of the twenty-first century. Demonstrates how the Christian community received and forged its identity from its development of the Bible to the present day. Covers topics fundamental to understanding the course of Western Christianity, including the growth of the papacy, heresy and schism, reformation and counter-reformation. Includes an introduction to the historiography of Christianity, a note on the problems of periodization, an appendix on theological terms, and a useful bibliography. An authoritative yet succinct history, written to appeal to a general audience as well as students of the history of Christianity. Written by internationally regarded theologian, Carter Lindberg, who is the author of numerous titles on theology and Church history.
Author : William E. Klingshirn
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813214866
Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
Author : George Herring
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814737005
Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and has had a profound impact on the course of civilization. Introduction to the History of Christianity is a beautifully crafted and clearly written introduction to Christianity over its 2000 year history. The broad underlying theme of the book is the interaction between Christianity and the secular world, exploring how one has shaped and been shaped by the other. The volume does not attempt to cover the whole of Christian history in detail. It focuses on three key chronological periods pivotal in the development of Christianity: Christ and Caesar, Christianity circa 300–500; Expansion and Order, Latin Christendom, circa 1050–1250; and Grace and Authority, Western Christianity, circa 1450–1650, as well as a concluding section on Christianity in the modern world, providing illustrative snapshots of the tradition over the course of its long development. In addition, the volume includes maps, timelines, quotations from primary source material, a glossary, and a further reading section. No staid, laborious introduction to its subject, Introduction to the History of Christianity offers an inviting and informative overview of this rich religious tradition.
Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
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ISBN : 9780521812399
Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 030012581X
"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300118848
Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.
Author : Howard Clark Kee
Publisher : Macmillan College
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Written by contributing scholars who are experts in specific facets of developing Christianity, this survey provides a well-rounded introduction to the history of Christianity and is ideal for anyone interested in the impact of Christianity of world culture down through history. It shows how Christianity emerged from its original Jewish context and developed into a worldwide religion, offering perceptive studies on how its origins and development were influenced by the changing social and cultural contexts in which the founders and leaders of this tradition lived and thought. Provides detailed evidence of the influence of Greco-Roman and Jewish religious concepts and religious movements on the origins of Christianity, considers the structuring of the church conceptually and organizationally in Europe, and discusses Christianity's spread and growth in America and throughout the world. Looks at the profound impact of the culture of the later Roman and medieval world on the development of Christian doctrine and intellectual traditions and helps readers understand the reasons for the divisions between Catholic and Protestant traditions.
