The Lost History of Christianity - The Thousand year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East,

Zusatztext "Jenkins's well-crafted new volume...is not only a welcome addition to the literature on Christianity as a truly global religion! to which he has already made substantial contributions! but also an invitation to retrieve a forgotten chapter of history that has not inconsiderable relevance to current events." Informationen zum Autor Philip Jenkins, the author of The Lost History of Christianity , Jesus Wars , and The Next Christendom , is a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He has published articles and op-ed pieces in The Wall Street Journal , The New Republic , The Atlantic Monthly , and The Washington Post and has been a guest on top national radio shows across the country. Klappentext The Untold Story of the Church's First Thousand Years In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that for centuries Christianity's center existed to the east of the Roman Empire. Zusammenfassung “Jenkins is one of America’s top religious scholars.”  — Forbes magazine The 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: John Philip Jenkins, Philip Jenkins
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.11.2009
• EAN: 9780061472817
• ISBN: 978-0-06-147281-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 205 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Islam, Bibles, Theology, Christianity, History of Religion, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Religion and beliefs, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Biography: religious and spiritual, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, East Asian and Indian philosophy, East Asian religions, RELIGION: Christianity / General, RELIGION: History, RELIGION: Biblical Studies / General, HISTORY: Ancient / General, RELIGION: Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION: HISTORY OF RELIGION/CHRISTIANITY, RELIGION: Christian Theology / History, RELIGION: Christianity / History, PHILOSOPHY: Eastern, RELIGION: Eastern, RELIGION: Christianity / Catholic / General, Religion / History of Religion/Christianity