A History of Christianity [Paperback ed.] 0684815036, 9780684815039

First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its inten

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A History of Christianity [Paperback ed.]
0684815036, 9780684815039

The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows

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A sweeping cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity

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An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and

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The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is one o

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What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the

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A survey of Welsh Christianity from its origins in Roman Britain to the present. Christianity has played an enormous ro

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Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introduct

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A History of Eastern Christianity (1968) is a scholarly and comprehensive account of the history of the non-Greek church

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Harnack’s classic lecture on the relationship between history and Christianity has stood the test of time. Both the conc

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