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Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the hebrew bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the christian faith. A life, which won the whitbread biography prize, the james tait black prize, and the duff cooper prize. To view the full text please use the links above to select your preferred format. His books include suffolk and the tudors, winner of the royal historical societys whitfield prize, and thomas cranmer. The first american edition was titled christianity. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world s biggest. Christianity, a new york times bestseller that won the cundill prize in history and was chosen by the new yorker and the new york times as a best book of the year. A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, diarmaid macculloch s christianity goes back to the origins of. Intelligent, thoughtprovoking and magisterial in its scope, this bbc series explores how a small jewish sect which preached humility. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in english, describes not only the main facts, ideas and personalities of christian history, its. A christian history by diarmaid macculloch paperback.
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