| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 806 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-767) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The cross -- 2. The master builder : Paul -- 3. The third race : early writing and worship -- 4. The blood of martyrs -- 5. "Conquer by this" : Constantine -- 6. Heretics -- 7. "through them the world is kept in being" : monks -- 8. The transpierced heart : Augustine -- 9. Lost Atlantis : the Islamic invasions -- 10. "A slave in Christ for foreign people" : the Pagan conversions -- 11. "A carnage of pagans" : crusades -- 12. "Act with a kindly harshness" : the laws of war -- 13. "O fire of love" : manifestations of the spirit -- 14. "If golde ruste, what should iren do?" : early reformers -- 15. "something that appeals to the eye" : papal attitudes -- 16. "By faith alone" : printing and protestants -- 17. The word of God : the Bible as lethal weapon -- 18. "Keep watch over the lives of everyone" : Calvin and the Puritans -- 19. "The prince's wrath means death" : English speakers -- 20. Roman soldiers : Counter-reformation -- 21. "Art thou become quite other than thyself, so cruel?" : the Spanish Inquisition -- 22. "Rather a country ruined than a country damned" : the wars of religion -- 23. God's charnel house : the witch-finders -- 24. "I the voice of Christ in the desert of this island" : the Americas -- 25. "A desert-dweller in pursuit of wild beasts" : the Jesuits in Paraguay -- 26. "The attractive African meteor" : the slave trade -- 27. "Rock, rock, oh when will thou open, rock? " : eastern missions -- 28. "The Lord make it like New England" : Protestant America -- 29. "The melancholy wastes of woe" : revolutions -- 30. "American Z ion" : Mormons -- 31. "Drawing the eye-tooth of the tiger" : missions -- 32. The descent of man : Darwin -- 33. "The godless rulers of darkness" : totalitarians -- 34. "I have a dream" : liberation theology -- 35. Charisma. |
| Summary |
"Moynahan traces the extraordinary journey that Christianity has made from its start as a small and vulnerable sect - "They were crucified or set on fire," Tacitus wrote of Christians, in Nero's Rome, "so that when darkness came they burned like torches in the night"--To the world's greatest congregation of almost two billion baptized souls. The Faith opens with the story of Jesus himself, the Resurrection, and the spreading of the Gospels. It shows how the young religion's growing power in the East, the cradle of its early monks and philosophers, was broken by the Islamic conquests, and how its energies were redirected westward into barbarian Europe. Moynahan covers in lucid detail the intensity of the medieval faith, with its titanic cathedrals, its clashes between Islam and Christendom, and its fracture into Reformation, Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the religious dissent that drove settlers to seek religious freedom in the Americas." "Based on little-known primary sources (including early Arabic writings), and featuring more than one hundred photographs and illustrations, this extraordinary history will be of interest to Christians of all denominations, to historians, and to every reader who seeks a fuller understanding of a force that has shaped the modern world."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Church history.
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Church history. (OCoLC)fst00860740
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Moynahan, Brian, 1941- Faith. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2002 (OCoLC)636321935 |
| ISBN |
038549114X (alk. paper) |
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9780385491143 (alk. paper) |
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0385491158 (pbk.) |
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9780385491150 (pbk.) |
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