by Diarmaid MacCulloch
(2)Publication Date: March 18, 2010
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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Hardcover)
This is a long and scholarly history of the The fund, gives birth to and growth of Christianity. The author is an Anglican and church historian. The narrative makes it clear that there has never been just one church, but many interpretations of who Jesus Christ was: from the early gnostic "heretics" (who lost the PR/political battles and were banned) To the Western Roman Church to the Eastern Greek Church to the Reformation and beyond (which spawned Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, et al). The love of Christ as shown by early Christian martyrs and by St. Francis of Assisi is contrasted with the intolerance of differences as shown by the religious wars and the Crusades. It is very reader readable and assumes no prior knowledge by the. With the approach of Easter, Mr. MacCulloch has written a book for the lay reader.
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