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A short history of Christianity / Stephen Tomkins.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomkins, Stephen, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2006.
- Summary:
- Yet grasping the vast story of his followers over the last 2,000 years can be a dizzying, difficult task. In A Short History of Christianity Stephen Tomkins takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, and the controversies of the church. Tomkins deals with the well-known (Augustine, Martin Luther), the unique (Simeon Stylites, the people's crusade, the Muggletonians), and the recent (Karl Barth, John Paul II, the Toronto blessing). His penetrating, energetic Short History of Christianity is sure to delight and inform a broad range of readers.
- Contents:
- As it was in the beginning
- The rise of Rome
- The Reformation
- Globalisation.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Oxford : Lion, 2005.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0802833829
- OCLC:
- 68623992
- Publisher Number:
- 9780802833822
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