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The Christian World: A Global History
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Author
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Martin Marty.
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Publisher
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Modern Library/BOMC
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.75
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0.9
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ISBN
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9780679643494
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Pages/Publication Date
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262/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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10502
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Description
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In this concise, cogent book, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers 2,000 years ago to become the world's most widespread religion. Marty depicts the life of Christ and his teachings and explains how the apostles set out to spread the Gospel. He then shows how the religion emerged from its ancestral homelands in Africa, the Levant, and Asia Minor, was imported to Europe, and spread from there to the rest of the world, most often via trade and conquest. Marty also considers how Christianity struggles with the polar tensions inherent to many of the faith's denominations, and how it attempts to reconcile some of its stances on armed conflict, justice, and dominion with the teachings of Christ. "Few scholars other than Marty would have dared write a book such as this, with details on figures as diverse as Bar-Daisan in ancient Syria and present-day Pentecostal evangelists in Africa. Historians and theologians will naturally quibble over points of detail, which may not always be up-to-date on current scholarship. Yet Marty writes with whimsical accessibility, the passion of a believer and the critical eye of a hard-nosed skeptic."—Publishers Weekly
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