Three Thousand Years of Christianity
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
-Reviewed by Ralph Walter
On first glance Christianity doesn’t look entirely promising. It’s a companion book to a television series – so one expects lots of pictures. The subtitle – “The First Three Thousand Years – suggests that the last third of the book is a millenarian rant on the rapture.
But Christianity is a tome of over one thousand pages of dense but highly readable text. It starts with two rich chapters on Christianity’s debt to ancient Jewish and Greek cultures – David …
