A History of Christianity pdf

Paul Johnson travaille comme historien, journaliste et auteur. Il a fait ses études à la Stonyhurst School à Clitheroe, Lancashire et au Magdalen College, Oxford, et s'est fait connaître pour la première fois dans les années 1950 en tant que journaliste écrivant pour, puis éditant, le magazine New Statesman. Il a également écrit pour de grands journaux et magazines en Grande-Bretagne, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Paul Johnson a publié plus de 40 livres, dont Une histoire du christianisme (1979), Une histoire du peuple anglais (1987), Intellectuels (1988), The Birth of the Modern : World Society, 1815—1830 (1991), Modern Times : Une histoire du monde des années 1920 à l'an 2000 (1999), Une histoire du peuple américain (2000), Une histoire des Juifs (2001) et Art: A New History (2003) ainsi que des biographies d'Elizabeth I (1974), Napoléon (2002), George Washington (2005) et le pape Jean-Paul II (1982).

A History of Christianity pdf par 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.