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Christianity : the first three thousand years / Diarmaid MacCulloch.

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. (Author).

Summary:

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of "The Reformation" returns with the definitive history of Christianity. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world.

Record details

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

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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