A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

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An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers. While wealthy Roman citizens indulge their every whim, Jews and barbarians are bought and sold as slaves and gladiators in the bloodthirsty arena. billion Christians in the world, I assume that he and Jesus don’t quite see eye-to-eye regarding the “narrow gate which leads to eternal life” (Matthew 7:13-14). The end of the 12 volumes is a wonderful portrait of a ruinous Rome in the 15th century, and then it moves to his own time, and he says, ‘Look!

Such people don’t always have an easy time with the rest of the human race, and, like a lot of people who devote their time to writing, he was very selfish: very few other people ever got in the way of Edward Gibbon and his building a life to suit himself.Thomas Penn Hilary Mantel possesses an extraordinary historical imagination and her recreation of the world of the 1530s through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell is, I think, utterly convincing. I would love to hear Gibbon’s comments on fundamentalism in the United States, or in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. He has written extensively on the 16th century and beyond it, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity.

I was a master of make-believe by age ten, and when the time was right, both passions fused into my debut novel, also set in Ancient Rome. He delves deep into its ancestry as it emerges from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew cultures, assumes divergent forms in the East and West, and co-exists with the rising faith of Islam.It has made both these faiths African, and the destiny of South and West and East Africa is Christian now. As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read--a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill.

Far from the Empire falling after Christianity, it lasted another 1000 years, in the form of Byzantine Christianity in Constantinople. It’s easy for us 21st-century liberals to feel it was dreadfully repressive, but if society is constantly on the edge of violence, as that society was, I think we’d feel rather differently about the community disapproving of people stepping out of line.I hope that this book will help readers stand back from Christianity, whether they love it or hate it, or are simply curious about it, and see it in the round. General essays on history, translation matters, different canons in use today, and issues of daily life in biblical times inform the reader of important aspects of biblical study. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. Instead, he traces the sheer variety of ways in which the basic forms of Christian life and faith were fleshed out. Yes, it’s often used as a college textbook, but it’s a good way to get grounded in China’s unique religious history.

The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. I’ll read you a little bit: ‘The Britons [in other words the people who aren’t Angli] for the most part have a national hatred for the Angli and uphold their own bad customs against the true Easter of the Catholic Church. While the account is fictional, the author is a highly respected New Testament scholar who weaves reliable historical information into a fascinating story, offering a fresh, engaging, and creative way to learn about the New Testament world. This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. Lewis, who was once an atheist, has been on both sides of the table, and he approaches the notion of God with accessible, clear thinking.He was looking around for a pew, and the church was crowded, but he saw one empty pew at the front, and he thought, ‘Oh, I’ll sit there – I’m a gentleman, I’m important, and it looks an important seat.