A History of Christianity pdf

Paul Johnson trabaja como historiador, periodista y autor. Se educó en Stonyhurst School en Clitheroe, Lancashire y Magdalen College, Oxford, y saltó a la fama en la década de 1950 como periodista escribiendo y más tarde como editor de la revista New Statesman. También ha escrito para los principales periódicos y revistas de Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Europa. Paul Johnson ha publicado más de 40 libros, incluidos A History of Christianity (1979), A History of the English People (1987), Intellectuals (1988), The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830 (1991), Modern Times: Una historia del mundo desde la década de 1920 hasta el año 2000 (1999), Una historia del pueblo estadounidense (2000), Una historia de los judíos (2001) y Arte: Una nueva historia (2003), así como biografías de Isabel I (1974), Napoleón (2002), George Washington (2005) y el Papa Juan Pablo II (1982).

A History of Christianity pdf por 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.