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the first three thousand years

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A history of Christianity

the first three thousand years

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Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.

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Allen Lane
Language
English
Pages
1161

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A history of Christianity: the first three thousand years
2009, Allen Lane
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A history of Christianity: the first three thousand years
2009, Allen Lane
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A History of Christianity
2009, Penguin Group UK
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1017]-1112).

Published in
London, England

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Dewey Decimal Class
270
Library of Congress
BR150 .M33 2009, BR150

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 1161 p. :
Number of pages
1161

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24046504M
Internet Archive
historyofchristi0000macc
ISBN 13
9780713998696
LCCN
2009379999
OCLC/WorldCat
437788173

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