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Genre/Form: | Pictorial works Illustrated works Ouvrages illustrés Dictionaries |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oxford illustrated history of Christianity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990 (OCoLC)551278577 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John McManners |
ISBN: | 0198229283 9780198229285 |
OCLC Number: | 20992284 |
Description: | xi, 724 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / John McManners -- The early Christian community / Henry Chadwick -- From Rome to the barbarian kingdoms (330-700) / Robert A. Markus -- The West : the age of conversion (700-1050) / Henry Mayr-Harting -- Eastern Christendom / Kallistos Ware -- Christianity and Islam / Jeremy Johns -- Christian civilization (1050-1400) / Colin Morris -- The Late Medieval Church and its reformation (1400-1600) / Patrick Collinson -- Enlightenment : secular and Christian (1600-1800) / John McManners -- The expansion of Christianity (1500-1800) / John McManners. Great Britain and Europe / Owen Chadwick -- North America / Martin Marty -- Latin America / Fredrick Pike -- Africa / Peter Hinchliff -- Asia / Kenneth and Helen Ballhatchet -- The Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe / Sergei Hackel. What Christians believe / Maurice Wiles -- New images of Christian community / Bryan Wilson -- The Christian conscience / Basil Mitchell -- The future of Christianity / John Taylor. |
Responsibility: | edited by John McManners. |
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Abstract:
Tells the story of Christianity from its origins to the present day, spanning 2000 years of incident. Every aspect of the faith is explored, and the richness of Christian art and thought in a wide variety of cultures and times is covered.
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'an enormous work...full of wise insights, balance of information, reliable scholarship and precision of writing...The illustrations are splendid. Edward Norman, TLS 'I know no other book on this subject which is up-to-date, armed with a critical list of fascinating titles for further reading and so wide in coverage and penetration ... fine book.' Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times Read more...
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