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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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The whole book, about 34 hours to read.

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Author
Diarmaid MacCulloch
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34 hours

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. PART I - A Millennium of Beginnings (1000 BCE-100 CE)
  3. Chapter 1 - Greece and Rome (c. 1000 BCE-100 CE)
  4. Chapter 2 - Israel (c. 1000 BCE-100 CE)
  5. PART II - One Church, One Faith, One Lord? (4 BCE-451 CE)
  6. Chapter 3 - A Crucified Messiah (4 BCE-100 CE)
  7. Chapter 4 - Boundaries Defined (50 CE-300)
  8. Chapter 5 - The Prince: Ally or Enemy? (100-300)
  9. Chapter 6 - The Imperial Church (300-451)
  10. PART III - Vanishing Futures: East and South (451-1500)
  11. Chapter 7 - Defying Chalcedon: Asia and Africa (451-622)
  12. Chapter 8 - Islam: The Great Realignment (622-1500)
  13. PART IV - The Unpredictable Rise of Rome (300-1300)
  14. Chapter 9 - The Making of Latin Christianity (300-500)
  15. Chapter 10 - Latin Christendom: New Frontiers (500-1000)
  16. Chapter 11 - The West: Universal Emperor or Universal Pope? (900-1200)
  17. Chapter 12 - A Church for All People? (1100-1300)
  18. PART V - Orthodoxy: The Imperial Faith (451-1800)
  19. Chapter 13 - Faith in a New Rome (451-900)
  20. Chapter 14 - Orthodoxy: More Than an Empire (900-1700)
  21. Chapter 15 - Russia: The Third Rome (900-1800)
  22. PART VI - Western Christianity Dismembered (1300-1800)
  23. Chapter 16 - Perspectives on the True Church (1300-1517)
  24. Chapter 17 - A House Divided (1517-1660)
  25. Chapter 18 - Rome's Renewal (1500-1700)
  26. Chapter 19 - A Worldwide Faith (1500-1800)
  27. Chapter 20 - Protestant Awakenings (1600-1800)
  28. PART VII - God in the Dock (1492-present)
  29. Chapter 21 - Enlightenment: Ally or Enemy? (1492-1815)
  30. Chapter 22 - Europe Re-enchanted or Disenchanted? (1815-1914)
  31. Chapter 23 - To Make the World Protestant (1700-1914)
  32. Chapter 24 - Not Peace but a Sword (1914-60)
  33. Chapter 25 - Culture Wars (1960-Present)

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