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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

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Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the west's written treasures.

But MacCulloch resists the glib narrative of decline and fall which is always going to tempt the sceptical historian of the church. Folio commissioned Hokyoung Kim for the artwork, while the late author’s wife, Wendy Benchley, provides a fascinating new introduction. Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Aslan describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction; a man of peace who exhorted his followers to arm themselves with swords; an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity a secret; and ultimately the seditious “King of the Jews” whose promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his brief lifetime. Maps are included throughout the text, helping to illuminate every chapter of Christianity’s global journey. His acclaimed, commanding history takes in apostles and martyrs, lost kingdoms and empires, crusades and liberation struggles, the architecture of soaring Gothic cathedrals and the genesis of the greatest works of sacred art and music.Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch Underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. One reason for its success is that it empowers people, particularly those who don’t feel they have power in any other way.

We saw what it was like to offer people a simple way to salvation – and some of those ways were apparently non-religious: Nazism, Stalinism, Communism. 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. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity.This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. But what happened was that all these states fell apart and the Christian churches just grew and flourished.

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