This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. He’s travelled as far as China, throughout Central Asia, and to India, taking beautiful colour photos.

Gonzalez, author of the acclaimed three-volume History of Christian Thought, The Story of Christianity Volume II: The Reformation to the Present Day is the fully revised and updated second volume of The Story of Christianity. He delves deep into its ancestry as it emerges from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew cultures, assumes divergent forms in the East and West, and co-exists with the rising faith of Islam. Scottish society remained full of festivity, but it had a rather different relationship with the Church.His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (2004) won the Wolfson Prize and the British Academy Prize. This is history on an epic scale, and like all the great epics, it begins in a distant time of confusion and struggle long before the birth of the protagonist. billion Christians in the world, I assume that he and Jesus don’t quite see eye-to-eye regarding the “narrow gate which leads to eternal life” (Matthew 7:13-14). As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Traditionally a lot of writing about the Scottish Reformation presents a picture of an enormously gloomy, repressive society – and there’s something in that.It still freaks me out and totally awes me when reviews for my novels mention her in the same sentence. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. If you look at the enslaved peoples in the southern part of the United States in the 18th century – these are people who had no choice in their lives. What modern historians would say is that this is a story of transformations, and one of those transformations was the alliance between emperors and Christianity, which made the Empire very different. It’s a very Rome-centred history, because the mission that came to England was sent by the Pope and that was very unusual; popes weren’t great at starting missions at the time.

Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources--including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews--Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered "missionary" church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. So you get a sense that for him being in a relationship with Rome is what it is to be true, and yet also curiously what it is to be local, to be where he is in the north of England. In fact, I circled “the Spirit” on page 102, because as far as I could tell, that was the first time he ever mentioned Him. She has the most wonderful stories about these disciplines: for example, one sea captain who was visiting from the Netherlands and went out on the razzle one night and had a wonderful time drinking and fornicating and when he had a hangover the following day he felt so guilty that he went to the local church and offered himself for penance before the congregation.I have been fascinated by the Bible since my earliest days in Sunday school, coloring pictures of Noah’s Ark. I was frustrated by conflicting messages about gender and faith from my family, profession, and religion.