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The Lost History Of Christianity : The Thousand-year Golden Age Of The Church In The Middle East, Africa, And Asia- And How It Died

Attribution
Philip Jenkins
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, HarperOne, 2008
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Description
In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity’s center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China. By understanding the forgotten catastrophe that befell Christianity, we can appreciate the surprising new births that are occurring in our own time, once again making Christianity a true world religion. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
Subject
Notes
- A lost history revealing that, for centuries, Christianity’s center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China
Contents
- A note on names and -isms
- The end of global Christianity
- Churches of the East
- Another world
- The great tribulation
- The last Christians
- Ghosts of a faith
- How faiths die
- The mystery of survival
- Endings and beginnings
ISBN
- 9780061472800
- 0061472808
Open Library ID
- /b/OL23092705M