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Diarmaid MacCulloch · 2009
A comprehensive one-volume narrative history of Christianity from its origins to the present day, examining the faith's development across different cultures and regions with scholarly rigor and accessible prose.
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What this book knows
Christianity's three millennia reveal a faith perpetually remade by power, doubt, and the collision of cultures it never fully controlled.
obedience-and-authority
the supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear
CFT02-RC-021Ottoman violence outraged all Christian Europe; the Oecumenical Patriarch himself hanged from his own palace gateway in the Phanar district
CFT02-RC-087belonging
what in one age seems bizarre — the property of a derided or persecuted sect — becomes the respected norm or variant in other, later circumstances
CFT02-RC-235Harris must abandon European clothing: that resolved the tangle into which his complicated relationship with Western culture had led him
CFT02-RC-119faith-and-doubt
liberal Protestantism embarked on a new adventure in Christian reunion, a new effort to break down Church boundaries and heal the various breaches stemming from the Reformation
CFT02-RC-177steep falls in the number of those actively involved in corporate religious practice — labelled 'secularization', confidently expected to set patterns for the whole world
CFT02-RC-207Illuminates
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