The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--And How It Died

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--And How It Died"Jenkins is one of America's top religious scholars." Forbes magazineThe Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled "The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died," it explores the extinction of the earliest, most influential Christian churches of China, India, and the Middle East, which held the closest historical links

"Jenkins is one of America's top religious scholars."
--Forbes magazineThe Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled "The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died," it explores the extinction of the earliest, most influential Christian churches of China, India, and the Middle East, which held the closest historical links to Jesus and were the dominant expression of Christianity throughout its first millennium. The remarkable true story of the demise of the institution that shaped both Asia and Christianity as we know them today, The Lost History of Christianity is a controversial and important work of religious scholarship that sounds a warning that must be heeded. --Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford and author of The Reformation

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 11/03/2009
ISBN: 9780061472817
Pages: 315
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.81d