Christianity: The Very First Three Thousand Years [Paperback]

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Where does Christianity begin? In Athens, Jerusalem, or Rome? How did the first creeds with the church develop and differentiate? What was the impact from the Reformation as well as the Catholic Counterreformation? How have vital Christian communities emerged in Asia, Africa, and India since the 18th century? Award-winning historian MacCulloch (The Reformation) efforts to answer these questions and lots of more on this elegantly written, magisterial history of Christianity. MacCulloch diligently traces the origins and development of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianities, and the man provides an even more in-depth look on the growth and development of Christianity in Asia and Africa than standard histories of Christianity. He offers sketches of Christian thinkers from Augustine and Luther to Desmond Tutu and Patriarch Bartholomew I. Three appendixes have a list of popes, Orthodox patriarchs, as well as a variety of Christian texts. Assuming no previous knowledge around the a part of readers about Christian traditions, MacCulloch traces in breathtaking detail the often contentious arguments within Christianity for the past 3,000 years. His monumental achievement will not likely soon be surpassed. (Mar.)
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*Starred Review* MacCulloch signals the parameters of his prodigious scholarship when he brackets the Resurrection being a riddle no historian can resolve, then marvels at how belief inside the Risen Lord has transformed ordinary men and ladies into martyrs—and inquisitors. Despite his refusal to affirm the faith’s founding miracle, MacCulloch demonstrates rare talent for probing a person's dynamics of Christianity’s long and complex evolution. Even though examining well-known episodes—such as the Church Fathers’ fight against Gnosticism or the stunning conversion of Constantine—this capacious narrative opens unexpected perspectives. Readers encounter, for instance, surprising connections between Christian doctrine, for the one hand, and ancient Greek philosophy interlaced with Roman politics on the other. Because chronicle fractures into Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant strands, MacCulloch exposes unfamiliar but unmistakably human personalities who have shaped the worship in the divine. Readers meet, for instance, Gudit, a savagely anti-monastic Ethiopian queen, and Filofei, an irrepressibly ambitious Russian monk. Much nearer to our time, we confront Christian enthusiasms that militarists harnessed in World War I, Christian hatreds that Nazis exploited in World War II. Concluding using the perplexities of evangelists facing an implacably secular world, MacCulloch leaves readers pondering a problematic religious future. A work of exceptional breadth and subtlety. --Bryce Christensen --This text refers towards the Hardcover edition.











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