The Story of Christianity

• Author : Jakob Balling
• Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
• Release : 25 March 2023

In order to highlight the long lines of continuity and development in the historical process of the religion, Balling (ancient and medieval church history, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) slides over many events that would illuminate the nuances and diversity of that process, and limits his study to European

• Author : David Bentley Hart
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 06 June 2013

In The Story of Christianity, acclaimed theologian David Bentley Hart provides a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond for over 2,000 years. From the persecutions of the early church to the papal-imperial conflicts of the Middle Ages, from the religious wars of 16th- and 17th-century Europe to the challenges of science and secularism in the modern era, and from the ancient Christian communities of Africa and Asia to the 'house churches' of

• Author : Everest Media,
• Publisher : Everest Media LLC
• Release : 20 March 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 As the fifteenth century came to a close, it was clear that the church needed reform. The Great Schism had weakened the papacy, and many people were not happy with the corrupt leadership in Rome. #2 The church seemed to be in need of reform, as many priests and monastics were corrupt, and the laity were unable to trust a sacrament administered by a member of the

• Author : Milkyway Media
• Publisher : Milkyway Media
• Release : 27 April 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 As the fifteenth century came to a close, it was clear that the church needed reform. The Great Schism had weakened the papacy, and many people were not happy with the corrupt leadership in Rome. #2 The church seemed to be in need of reform, as many priests and monastics were corrupt, and the laity were unable to trust a sacrament administered by a member of the clergy

• Author : Frances Marrow
• Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Release : 15 May 2018

Written for the general reader with an interest in how Christianity spread and developed throughout the British Isles, Anno Domini: The Story of Christianity in the British Isles explores the progress of Christianity in all four countries. It also looks at how it contributed greatly to the formation of our culture in the process. The book explores the theme of Christianity thoroughly, but step-by-step, taking the reader through the early centuries where the Saints played major roles to spread the

• Author : Everest Media,
• Publisher : Everest Media LLC
• Release : 22 March 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The church was never disconnected from the world around it. The first Christians were first-century Jews, and it was as such that they heard and received the message. Then the faith spread, first among other Jews, and eventually among Gentiles both within and beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. #2 Palestine has always been a land of strife and suffering. It was invaded and conquered by

• Author : Milkyway Media
• Publisher : Milkyway Media
• Release : 04 May 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The church was never disconnected from the world around it. The first Christians were firstcentury Jews, and it was as such that they heard and received the message. Then the faith spread, first among other Jews, and eventually among Gentiles both within and beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. #2 Palestine has always been a land of strife and suffering. It was invaded and conquered by Alexander

• Author : Hezekiah Butterworth
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1880

• Author : Jean-Pierre Isbouts
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release : 25 March 2023

Focuses on the rich social and cultural history of Christianity through the ages, from its roots in Palestine to its development as a global movement.

• Author : Tim Dowley
• Publisher : Fortress Press
• Release : 01 June 2018

Now in its third edition, Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history has an updated design and new content, particularly in the section covering most recent Christian history. The inviting full-color format includes many new images and updated maps, while maintaining many of the features that made the second edition a popular volume for the classroom. Dowley has assembled a global cast of respected scholars to write the full story of the rise of the Christian faith and to

• Author : Robert Bruce Mullin
• Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
• Release : 22 November 2014

Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short World History of Christianity, by contrast, offers a panoramic picture of the history of Christianity in its Western and non-Western expressions. It tells the story of the early church in the Greek East as well as the Latin West; of Christianity's spread into Asia as well as

• Author : Étienne Ursin Bouzique
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1875

• Author : Philip Schaff,Eusebius
• Publisher : DigiCat
• Release : 13 November 2022

"History of the Christian Church" is an eight volume account of Christian history written by Philip Schaff. In this great work Schaff covers the history of Christianity from the time of the apostles to the Reformation period. "Ecclesiastical History" of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century. The result was the first full-length historical narrative written from a Christian

• Author : Henry Hart Milman
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1887

• Author : Diana Butler Bass
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 06 October 2009

“It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading this book without finding some new insight or inspiration, some new and unexpected testimony to the astonishing breadth of Christianity through the centuries.” — Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity “Interesting, insightful, illuminating, and remarkably relevant.” — Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity In the tradition of Howard Zinn comes a new history of Christianity that reveals its bottom-up movements over the past 2,000 years, which preserved Jesus’s original