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• ISBN: 9780670021260
• ISBN: 0670021261
• Physical Description: xvii, 1161 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
• Edition: First American edition
• Publisher: New York : Viking, 2010.
• Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1017-1112) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A millennium of beginnings (1000 BCE-100 CD). Greece and Rome (c. 1000 BC-100 CE) ; Israel (c. 1000 BCE-100 CD) -- One Church, one faith, one Lord? (4 BCD-451 CD). A crucified messiah (4 BCE-100 CD) ; Boundaries defined (50 CE-300) ; The Prince : ally or enemy? (100-300) ; The Imperial Church (300-451) -- Vanishing futures : East and South (451-1500). Defying Chalcedon : Asia and Africa (451-622) ; Islam : the great realignment (622-1500) -- The unpredictable rise of Rome (300-1300). The making of Latin Christianity (300-500) ; Latin Christendom : new frontiers (500-1000) ; The West : universal emperor or universal pope? (900-1200) ; A Church for all people? (1100-1300) -- Orthodoxy : the Imperial faith (451-1800). Faith in a new Rome (451-900) ; Orthodoxy : more than an empire (900-1700) ; Russia : the third Rome (900-1800) -- Western Christianity dismembered (1300-1800). Perspectives on the true Church (1300-1517) ; A house divided (1517-1660) ; Rome's renewal (1500-1700) ; A worldwide faith (1500-1800) ; Protestant awakenings (1600-1800) -- God in the dock (1492-present). Enlightenment : ally or enemy? (1492-1815) ; Europe re-enchanted or disenchanted? (1815-1914) ; To make the world Protestant (1700-1914) ; Not peace but a sword (1914-60) ; Culture wars (1960-present)

Citation/References Note:

Booklist starred

Library Journal

Publisher's Weekly

Booklist starred, February 2010

Library Journal, February 2010

Publisher's Weekly, February 2010

Target Audience Note:

Adult

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Church history.