A Short World History of Christianity

Reducere. Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of ...

Reducere. Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the current globalizat...

DescriptionDuring this time of conflict and suspicion, it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the beliefs and philosophies of other c...

DescriptionA best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years"An excellent study that will help historians appreci...

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and A...

Reducere. A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first mille...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, editors Roger Allen and Shawkat M. Toorawa have assembled fifteen chapters by fifteen noted schola...

In this accessible and comprehensive work, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins cover the entire history of philosophy--ancient, medieval, and moder...

DescriptionTo many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that survived in the East following the Great...

What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the wo...