A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

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A History of Christianity is a book for Christians and non-Christians alike: not a work of theology, but an exhilarating and accessible account of how the Christian religion has shaped human history. Others are less so: MacCulloch explores early Christianity’s debt to Plato, the forgotten medieval Christian empire in China, and why India proved so resistant to missionaries. In a work of astonishing scope, Diarmaid MacCulloch begins the story 1,000 years before the birth of Christ.

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He also makes it plain that a good many of these lost possibilities were own goals - lost because of internal Christian conflict, including the interference of Christian colonial powers. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity. She is writing about the Scottish Reformation, which produced the Presbyterian Church of Scotland (still the Scottish national church).

He is perhaps best known for his work on the Reformation in England and Europe, including Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 and biographies of Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell . So he sat down on it, and of course it was the Stool of Repentance and the whole congregation burst into laughter at seeing this stupid foreigner sit where you should never sit. A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, was awarded the Cundill and Hessel-Tiltman Prizes. What also fascinated me as I wrote my book were the bits of Christianity not covered by those categories – the really ancient Christianities of the Middle East, which in many ways are more in touch with the very first Christians.A volume that users will want to keep for continued reference, The New Oxford Annotated Bible continues the Oxford University Press tradition of providing excellence in scholarship for the general reader. And it really destroyed the credibility of the Portuguese, the last people in Europe really to defend their colonial empire. I would love to hear Gibbon’s comments on fundamentalism in the United States, or in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The book reveals that experiencing God doesn't have to be a mystical exercise; God can be a concrete and logical conclusion. Now I'm a full-time artist and curate a small art gallery, but I've never stopped looking for good books on Art and Faith.