A History of Christianity pdf

Paul Johnson lavora come storico, giornalista e autore. Ha studiato alla Stonyhurst School di Clitheroe, nel Lancashire e al Magdalen College di Oxford, ed è diventato famoso negli anni '50 come giornalista scrivendo per la rivista New Statesman e in seguito modificandola. Ha anche scritto per i principali giornali e riviste in Gran Bretagna, Stati Uniti ed Europa. Paul Johnson ha pubblicato oltre 40 libri tra cui 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 storia del mondo dagli anni '20 all'anno 2000 (1999), Una storia del popolo americano (2000), Una storia degli ebrei (2001) e Arte: una nuova storia (2003), nonché le biografie di Elisabetta I (1974), Napoleone (2002), George Washington (2005) e Papa Giovanni Paolo II (1982).

A History of Christianity pdf da 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.