A History of Christianity PDF

Paul Johnson arbeitet als Historiker, Journalist und Autor. Er wurde an der Stonyhurst School in Clitheroe, Lancashire und am Magdalen College, Oxford, ausgebildet und erlangte in den 1950er Jahren als Journalist, der für das Magazin New Statesman schrieb und später herausgab, Bekanntheit. Er hat auch für führende Zeitungen und Zeitschriften in Großbritannien, den USA und Europa geschrieben. Paul Johnson hat über 40 Bücher veröffentlicht, darunter A History of Christentum (1979), A History of the English People (1987), Intellectuals (1988), The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830 (1991), Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000 (1999), A History of the American People (2000), A History of the Jews (2001) und Art: A New History (2003) sowie Biografien von Elizabeth I (1974), Napoleon (2002), George Washington (2005) und Papst Johannes Paul II. (1982).

A History of Christianity pdf von Paul Johnson

First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.