Christianity: A Historical Atlas

by: Ryrie, A.

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The dramatic story of Christianity from its origins to the present day, told through more than one hundred stunning color maps.

With over two billion practicing believers today, Christianity has taken root in almost all parts of the globe. Its impact on Europe and the Americas in particular has been fundamental. Through more than one hundred beautiful color maps and illustrations, Christianity traces the history of the religion, beginning with the world of Jesus Christ. From the consolidation of the first Christian empire—Constantine?s Rome—to the early Christian states that thrived in Ireland, Ethiopia, and other regions of the Roman periphery, Christianity quickly proved dynamic and adaptable.

After centuries of dissemination, strife, dogmatic division, and warfare in its European and Near Eastern heartland, Christianity conquered new worlds. In North America, immigrants fleeing persecution and intolerance rejected the established Church, and in time revivalist religions flourished and spread. Missionaries took the Christian message to Latin America, Africa, and Asia, bringing millions of new converts into the fold.

Christianity has served as the inspiration for some of the world?s finest monuments, literature, art, and architecture, while also playing a major role in world politics and history, including conquest, colonization, conflict, and liberation. Despite challenges in the modern world from atheism and secularism, from scandals and internal divisions, Christianity continues to spread its message through new technologies while drawing on a deep well of history and tradition.

Introduction
In the Beginning
Israel: The Crucible of Christianity
A Turbulent Province: Roman Judaea
Jerusalem: The Focus of Christianity
The Ministry of Jesus and Holy Land Sites
The Age of the Apostles: St Paul?s Journeys
The Early Christian Church to 200 CE
The Christianization of the Empire
Early Christian Sects
The Council of Chalcedon, 451 CE
The Fall of the Empire in the West
Creeds and Controversies
The Consolidation of Christianity to 600 CE
Ireland: Churchmen and Scholars
The Empire under Justinian, 527–565
Nestorianism, the Church of the East
The Emergence of Islam
The Christian World c. 700–1000
Christianity in the Middle Ages
The Spread of Christianity in Europe
Eastern Christianity and Iconoclasticism
Carolingians and the “Holy Roman Empire”
The Missions of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Christendom and the “Barbarians”
The Rise of the Papal States
Ottonian Germany and Conflict with the Pope
The Development of the Monastic Orders
The Formalization of Christian Architecture
The Great Schism of 1054
The Rise of the University
The Christian Call to Arms
The First Crusade and Siege of Jerusalem
The Second and Third Crusades
The Apogee of Papal Power
The Fourth Crusade: Siege of Constantinople
The Latin East
The Crusader States and Military Orders
The Final Crusades
The Mongol Invasions
The Fall of Kievan Rus
The End of the Crusader States
Christian Pilgrimage in the Later Middle Ages
The Christianization of the Baltic
Medieval Heresies
Monasteries in Russia, 1200–1500
The Western Schism, 1378–1417
The Hussite Crusade
The Fall of Byzantium, 1453
Renaissance Humanism in Europe
The Rise of Printing
Islamic Spain and the Reconquista
East African Christianity
The Consolidation of Christian Russia
The Age of Reform, 1500–1800
Catholicism in the New World
Catholic Missions in the Old World
The Protestant Reformation
The Second Reformation: Calvinism
Wars of Religion in the Holy Roman Empire
The Papal States and the Holy League
The Dutch Revolt
The French Wars of Religion
The Counter Reformation, 1545–1731
The Thirty Years? War, 1618–48
Puritanism in England and North America
Missionary States in South America
Christianity and Islam in Africa
Radical Settlers in North America
Pietism, Methodism and the Evangelical Revival
Protestant Missions in the Age of Slavery
Catholic Missions in California
Christianity in the Modern World, 1800–2020
Christianity in the Age of Revolution
Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Religion in the American Revolution, 1757–87
Christianity and the Enslaved Peoples
Religious Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America
Southern Africa
China and the Missionaries to 1945
Indian and the Missionaries to 1947
Christianity in Modern Africa
Pentecostalism: A Global Faith
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in America
Worldwide Evangelicalism
Christianity in Communist Europe
The Rise of Protestantism in Latin America
Christian Persecution in the Middle East
China and Korea since 1949
South Asia from 1947
Christian Growth and Decline
Christianity in the Contemporary World
Glossary
Index
List of Maps
Acknowledgments

Christianity: A Historical Atlas

by: Ryrie, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780674242357 / 978-0-674-24235-7
• ISBN-03: 0674242351 / 0-674-24235-1
• The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020

Price: 33,40 EURO

1 copy in stock