A New History of ChristianityWritten from an objective historical perspective, A New History of Christianity provides the best readable yet scholarly one-volume account of Christianity from its origins to the present day.Chapters cover Christian beginnings, the growth of the early Christian communities, the character of the medieval Church, popular religion, the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the early modern Church, the Church in the nineteenth century, the Church in war and peace, and the crisis of the modern Church> |
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Contents
The Church Triumphant | 25 |
The Matrix of Medieval Christianity | 45 |
Renovation and Retroaction | 72 |
Faith and Fable | 102 |
The Protestant Reformation | 124 |
The Catholic Reformation | 160 |
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| Title | A New History of Christianity |
| Author | Vivian Hubert Howard Green |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0826412270, 9780826412270 |
| Length | 452 pages |
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