Full name: Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780143118695 0143118692

The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and SilenceA product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox history and fills in often neglected accounts of conversion and confrontation in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. MacCulloch introduces us to monks and crusaders, heretics and reformers, popes and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in shaping human history and the intimate lives of men and women. And he uncovers the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the surprising beliefs of the founding fathers, the rise of the Evangelical movement and of Pentecostalism, and the recent crises within the Catholic Church. Bursting with original insights and a great pleasure to read, this monumental religious history will not soon be surpassed. Similar books: History of Christianity by Paul Johnson And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady Head and Heart by Garry Wills The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark The Catholic Church by Hans Kung The Triumph of Christianity by Rodney Stark The Birth of Christianity by John Dominic Crossan The Bad Popes by E. R. Chamberlin Vicars of Christ by Peter De Rosa Constantine's Sword by James Carroll The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill The Devil by Jeffrey B. Russell Did Jesus Exist? by Bart D. Ehrman How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman