Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: christianities, american, heart, head
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594201463
ISBN-13: 9781594201462

A landmark examination of Christianity’s place in American life across the broad sweep of this country’s history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country’s history, is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between the two poles played out, and with what consequences, over the past 400 years? How "Christian" is America, after all? Garry Wills brings a lifeti

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: faiths, scripture, battles, christianities, lost
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195182499
ISBN-13: 9780195182491

The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apos

Author: Hugh McLeod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: world, christianities, volume, christianity, history, cambridge
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2006-02-13
List price: $225.99
ISBN-10: 0521815002
ISBN-13: 9780521815000

The twentieth century saw changes as dramatic as any in Christian history. The Churches suffered serious losses, both through persecution and through secularization, in what had been for several centuries their European heartlands, but grew fast in Africa and parts of Asia. This volume provides a comprehensive history of Catholicism, Protestantism and the Independent Churches in all parts of the world in the century when Christianity truly became a global religion. Written by a powerful team of specialists from many different countries, the volume is broad in scope.