ChristianityIn this single absorbing volume, the noted historian and religious scholar Roland Bainton offers a comprehensive, critical portrait of Christianity from its beginnings two thousand years ago to the modern day. From Christ's lowly birth in a stable to the rise of cathedrals and kings, from Roman soliders to Fanciscan monks to Puritans fleeing persecution to a new world across the sea, Bainton paints a rich history of a vast and varied people united by a singular belief. Illustrated with fifty black-and-white photographs, CHRISTIANITY is a perfect introduction for lay readers and a classic in its field. |
Contents
Foreword | vii |
The Ministry of Christ | 32 |
III | 46 |
Conversion of the Barbarians | 114 |
VI | 144 |
Medieval Christendom | 168 |
Decline of the Papacy | 204 |
An Age of Reformation | 230 |
X | 239 |
A Century of Enlightenment | 318 |
Christianity in the Modern | 344 |
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