A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

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I think another factor in Europe is that we experienced the effect of tidy-minded ideologies during the 20th century at first hand. 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. Introductory essays on major groups of biblical writings - Pentateuch, Prophets, Gospels, and other sections - give readers an overview that guides more intensive study.

S. Lewis que se transmitieron durante tiempos de guerra, charlas en las cuales él se proponía ""explicar y defender las creencias que han sido común a casi todos los cristianos de todos los tiempos.The city of Oxford has been a popular location for fictional murders for nearly a century, the ancient university and its beautiful buildings also lending themselves to wonderful screen adaptations. The groundbreaking debut novel of Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers, one of the most imaginative voices in contemporary science fiction, is a truly galactic limited edition.

Alison Alvarez What I really took with me from the book were the descriptions of how she dealt with the stress of solitary confinement and eventually the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Charmed Life arrives in an explosion of magic in this edition illustrated by Alison Bryant and introduced by Katherine Rundell. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main facts, ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and spirituality, but how it has changed politics and human society.After all my reading—of the book, the front-matter, the blurbs, the “About the Author”—I still have no idea about Kelly’s religious stripe. Brian Van Hove, a Roman Catholic historian, criticised the book for various reasons including secular bias. This superb three-volume Folio edition features an entirely new introduction by historian Neil MacGregor, bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, and each volume includes 32 pages of stunning colour images. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and the birth of a religion. The book reveals that experiencing God doesn't have to be a mystical exercise; God can be a concrete and logical conclusion.

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. Airhart’s empathetic study shows how powerfully the United Church contributed to moving Canada in the direction of humane social development, but then how internal divisions and the growing secularism of Canadian society frustrated the grand nationalistic and spiritual visions with which the church began. There’s virtually nothing about Jesus’ shed blood which washes away the sins of the world, about His resurrection, about the love and forgiveness of God, about the drawing of the Spirit or the grace by which even the worst of sinners can be saved. Christianity did not come out too well in its encounters with these totalitarian ideologies, and I don’t think Europeans have forgotten that. As with the other books I have chosen this book brings the world of the first century to life and sheds light on some of the key issues that would have affected Christians in that period.Xi Lian, a professor of world Christianity at the Duke Divinity School, explains the political and cultural reasons for this and focuses on the Chinese Christians at the vanguard of the indigenous movement—including my great-uncle Watchman Nee. Christians have convinced themselves that the battle isn’t worth fighting, which is why our godless culture seems to be winning. The images encompass medieval Gospel manuscripts, artworks from the high Renaissance and modern documentary photography, all drawn from sources including the Vatican, Cairo’s Coptic Museum and private collections.