A History of Christianity

The First Three Thousand Years

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The author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read--a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Ambitious, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible & covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.

Christianity will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus' message spread...
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Andrew Gant He refers back to the Old Testament, and the history of Christianity before Christ. It’s a hugely ambitious book. (Source)


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