Charting the rise and development of Christianity, Carter Lindberg has succeeded in writing a concise and compelling history of the world-s largest religion. He spans over 2,000 years of colorful incident to give an authoritative history of Christianity for both the general reader and the beginning student.
- Ranges from the missionary journeys of the apostles to the tele-evangelism of the twenty-first century.
- Demonstrates how the Christian community received and forged its identity from its development of the Bible to the present day.
- Covers topics fundamental to understanding the course of Western Christianity, including the growth of the papacy, heresy and schism, reformation and counter-reformation.
- Includes an introduction to the historiography of Christianity, a note on the problems of
