Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Lost History of Christianity The Lost History of Christianity Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, wi… OL15178095W
Jesus Wars Jesus Wars Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these co… OL15188596W
Laying Down the Sword Laying Down the Sword Philip Jenkins Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions -- all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in t… OL16266994W
The many faces of Christ The many faces of Christ Philip Jenkins "In The Many Faces of Christ religious historian Philip Jenkins refutes our most basic assumptions about the Lost Gospels and the history of Christianity. He reveals that hundreds of alternative gosp… OL20010364W
The Next Christendom The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins The explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin American has barely registered on Western consciousness. Nor has the globalization of Christianity--and the enormous relig… OL73998W