{"product_id":"world-history-of-christianity-9780802848758","title":"World History of Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristianity is the most global of religions. However, most books on the subject fail to do justice to the history of Christianity outside Europe and North America. This prodigious work provides the first genuinely global one-volume study of the rise, development, and impact of the Christian faith.\u003cbr\u003e Written by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive volume covers the full breadth of Christian history while also taking seriously the geographical diversity of the story: extensive chapters cover North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, China and its neighbors, and Australia and the Pacific. Though unified in scope, these chapters each focus on what matters most in the specific time and place covered, ensuring that readers are introduced to the major themes--social, theological, political, and cultural--that together constitute Christianity's role in world history.\u003cbr\u003e Ideally suited for classroom study as well as for independent reading, \u003cem\u003eA World History of Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e will serve as the definitive study of church history for the coming generation worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors: \u003cbr\u003e Mary B. Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e Gillian Evans\u003cbr\u003e Robert E. Frykenberg\u003cbr\u003e Martin Goodman\u003cbr\u003e Adrian Hastings\u003cbr\u003e Mary Heimann\u003cbr\u003e David Hilliard\u003cbr\u003e Robert Bruce Mullin\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Pettegree\u003cbr\u003e Gary Tiedemann\u003cbr\u003e Philip Walters\u003cbr\u003e Benedicta Ward\u003cbr\u003e Kevin Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHastings, Adrian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - (1929-2001) Former professor emeritus of theology at theUniversity of Leeds in England. A theologian and churchhistorian, he wrote several books including A History ofChristianity in Africa, A History of EnglishChristianity, and The Church in Africa andedited A World History of Christianity and TheOxford Companion to Christian Thought. In recognitionof his scholarly achievements he was proposed for electionto a Fellowship of the British Academy, but died before theformal elections were held.","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461144678674,"sku":"9780802848758","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_23fe7849-e99b-47e3-8b84-1574f44aec9d.jpg?v=1730058041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/world-history-of-christianity-9780802848758","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}