# Christianity

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- Book: [Christianity](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-chidester/christianity) ([Christianity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-chidester/christianity.md))
- Authors: [David Chidester](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-chidester)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4025-711-3
- Pages: 704
- Published: 2001-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A monumental new history of Christianity from its beginnings as a persecuted cult, up to its present day international diversity. 'A model of condensation without simplification' - J. M Coetzee 'Clear and balanced. A triumph of compression... invaluable as a work of reference for students' - Karen Armstrong, Times 'A new and ambitious concept in presenting Christian history... a triumph. Never before, I suspect, has this cavalcade of thinkers been presented in a manner which so successfully combines depth, breadth, and succinctness' - Gerard Noel, Catholic Herald