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Faith A History of Christianity

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ISBN-10: 0385491158

ISBN-13: 9780385491150

Edition: N/A

Authors: Brian Moynahan

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Beginning with the birth of Jesus and tracing the religion established by his followers up to the present day, The Faith is a comprehensive exploration of the history of Christianity. Judiciously covering all the signal moments without bogging down in minutia, author Brian Moynahan's superbly written and generously illustrated book is of central importance to Christians, historians, and anyone interested in a faith that shaped the modern world. Moynahan's research uses little-known sources to tell a magnificent story encompassing everything from the early tremulous years after Jesus' death to the horrors of persecution by Nero, from the growth of monasteries to the bloody Crusades, from…    
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Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/21/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 816
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.540

The author was a foreign correspondent and latterly European Editor of the Sunday Times (London). His biographies and histories include the prize-winning The Russian Century, William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life, and The Faith. He writes for several British and American newspapers. He lives in London (England).

Introduction
The Cross
The Master Builder: Paul
The Third Race: Early Writing and Worship
The Blood of Martyrs
"Conquer by this": Constantine
Heretics
"Through them the world is kept in being": Monks
The Transpierced Heart: Augustine
Lost Atlantis: The Islamic Invasions
"A slave in Christ for foreign people": The Pagan Conversions
"A carnage of pagans": Crusades
"Act with a kindly harshness": The Laws of War
"O fire of love": Manifestations of the Spirit
"If golde ruste, what should iren do?": Early Reformers
"Something that appeals to the eye": Papal Attitudes
"By faith alone": Printing and Protestants
The Word of God: The Bible as Lethal Weapon
"Keep watch over the lives of everyone ... ": Calvin and the Puritans
"The prince's wrath means death": English Speakers
Roman Soldiers: Counter-Reformation
"Art thou become quite other than thyself, so cruel?": The Spanish Inquisition
"Rather a country ruined than a country damned ... ": The Wars of Religion
God's Charnel House: The Witch-Finders
"I the voice of Christ in the desert of this island": The Americas
"A desert-dweller in pursuit of wild beasts": The Jesuits in Paraguay
"The attractive African meteor": The Slave Trade
"Rock, rock, oh when will thou open, rock?": Eastern Missions
"The Lord make it like New England": Protestant America
"The melancholy wastes of woe": Revolutions
"American Zion": Mormons
"Drawing the eye-tooth of the tiger": Missions
The Descent of Man: Darwin
"The godless rulers of darkness": Totalitarians
"I have a dream": Liberation Theology
Charisma
Notes
Select Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index