A short history of Christianity / Geoffrey Blainey.

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From the publisher. For two thousand years, Christianity has had a varying but immense influence on world history. Accomplished historian Geoffrey Blainey leads us through the history of this world-changing religion. A Short History of Christianity vividly describes many of the significant players i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blainey, Geoffrey
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Lanham : 2014.
Edition:First Rowman & Littlefield edition.
Subjects:
Church history.
RELIGION / Christianity / History.
Physical Description:xxi, 613 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part 1.
  • The boy from Galilee
  • The death and rebirth of Jesus
  • "Who can be against us?"
  • Bread, wine and water
  • In the emperor's hands
  • The gang of heretics
  • Monks and hermits
  • The rise of Islam
  • Part 2.
  • The battle of the icons
  • Behind French monastery walls
  • Grenadiers of god
  • The magic of glass and paint
  • A star above Assisi
  • The Crusaders
  • Rome, Avignon and the Golden Horn
  • The Pilgrims' paths
  • Part 3. The heralds of Christendom
  • A Swiss sword-carrier
  • A tempest across England
  • John Calvin's realm
  • Trent : the endless meeting
  • To the ends of the Earth
  • A Reformation untangled
  • Part 4. Pilgrim Bunyan and Quaker Fox
  • Two open-air voices : Wesley and Whitefield
  • Turmoil in Paris
  • Christmas carol
  • A taste for toleration
  • The age of steam and haste
  • Coming of the light and the darkness
  • War and peace
  • The moving eye of the needle
  • "More popular than Jesus".