The lost history of Christianity : the thousand-year golden age of the church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia- and how it died
2008
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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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780061472800
- 0061472808
Description: xi, 315 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
- "HarperOne".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Control Number: 172126
Publisher: New York : HarperOne, [2008]Subjects:
- Africa -- Church history.
- Africa, North -- Church history.
- Asia -- Church history.
- Christian civilization.
- Christianity -- Africa -- History.
- Christianity -- Asia -- History.
- Christianity -- Middle East -- History.
- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Civilization, Arab -- Christian influences.
- Middle East -- Church history.