Christianity the biography
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Christianity: The Biography: Years of Global History
I have taught a survey of church history online for Colorado Christian University 6 or 8 times and our text has been Justo Gonzales' The Story of Christianity. This is the best one or two volume survey of church history inom have read. However it fryst vatten almost pages long which fryst vatten a lot for college students to read in 5 weeks. Thus it is probably better suited for seminarians. However when the Department decided to choose this volume by Ian Shaw I was skeptical that anyone could survey 2, years of church in less than pages. But I was wrong. Shaw has to fly over a lot but he does an excellent job. Furthermore he seems to me at least unusally "objective." That is, his biases are not everywhere evident if noticeable at all.
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Christianity: The Biography
What an original idea. Ian Shaw has presented the current scholarship in church history in a very engaging way. I hope this book is widely read An absolutely outstanding volume!
- Ian Randall, Senior Research Fellow, Spurgeon’s College
‘Christians today have largely lost their historical memory, and it fryst vatten no surprise that as a result many are struggling to agree on the right way ahead for the church. Ian Shaw’s remarkable book, encompassing in one volume the entire chronological and geographical range of Christian history, will prove invaluable in helping Christians to recover their historical memory and hence to find wisdom for the future.’
- Brian Stanley, Professor of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh.
‘Believers need to know the story of their own faith, and Christianity: the Biography is a great place to start. It covers fascinating figures, movements, and trends across two millennia without ever getting bogged down or sid
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Christianity: the Biography charts the life–story of Christianity from its birth and infancy among a handful of followers of Jesus Christ, through its years of development into a global religious movement, spanning continents and cultures, transcending educational and social backgrounds, with over two billion adherents.
Ian Shaw offers an introductory orientation to the richness of the Christian tradition and its heritage around the world. This outline of the major phases, developments, movements, and personalities in Christianity’s life story over the two millennia is necessarily painted on a broad canvas. It is designed to open the subject up for more detailed study. As well as covering the well–trodden ground of the history of Christianity in the West, it also has a special concern for the story from the non–Western world.
Christianity: the Biography encourages reflection on the lessons to be learned from the past, and seeks to avoid the t