Author: Joseph ReevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A Short View of the History of the Christian Church
Author: Joseph ReevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A Short View of the History of the Christian Church, from Its First Establishment to the Present Century
Author: Joseph ReevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Short History of Christianity
Author: Stephen TomkinsPublisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 0745957382
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Worshipped by 2 billion Christians (and revered by 1.3 billion Muslims), Jesus Christ is the most famous human being ever. Yet how did this man from an obscure backwater in the Roman Empire achieve such extraordinary acclaim? How did religion founded in his name grom to become the most powerful on earth? What has been its relationship through history with that other giant of religions, Islam? In this fast-paced and entertaining book, journalist and historian Stephen Tomkins sets out to provide the answers. Beginning with the life of Jesus, he presents a warts-and-all portrait of the key people, events and movements in Christian history. For every debauched pope, murderous crusader and hate-filled inquisitor, there are glorious examples of heroic self-sacrifice, spiritual enlightenment and social transformation. Despite setbacks and conflict, the church has continued to change and grow, with the result that, at the start of the 21st century, its centre of gravity is moving south into sub-Saharan Africa and South America. The author ends by looking to the future, for the story is far from over. All those wanting to understand where Christianity is going need to learn where it has come from, and in this book they will find a lively and informative guide.
A History of the Christian Church
Author: Williston WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Christianity
Author: Linda WoodheadPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199687749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This is a short, accessible analysis of Christianity that focuses on its social and cultural diversity as well as its historical dimensions.
History of Christianity
Author: Paul JohnsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451688512
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
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.
A Short History of Christianity
Author: John Mackinnon RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A General History of the Christian Church
Author: Joseph ReevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A New History of Early Christianity
Author: Charles FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030012581X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"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.
The Acts of the Apostles
Author: P.D. JamesPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861077
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James