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History of Christianity
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 209
EAN: 9780684815039
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed
ISBN: 0684815036
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: August 01, 1979
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone
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Rating:  - Tendentious and Misleading, even if "Entertaining"
Paul Johnson passes as an "entertaining" or "popular" writer of history largely because he is provocative and one-sided. This would be objectionable, but not egregiously so, if he did not claim, as he does in the preface of this book, to be objective and unbiased. One cannot make it through the first chapter, and certainly not the second, before discovering that Paul Johnson has picked his heroes and villains in the history of the Church. For example, he has everything bad and almost nothing good ... Read More
Rating:  - why no one questions the accuracy of the historical facts here?
In a review of Johnson's "A History of the American People" by Mark Wylie, he raised a serious issue by saying "The most obvious failing of this book is its abundance of factual errors..."
Also in a review of Johnson's "A History of the Jews", a customer titled his review as "A Pleasant Buffet of Factual Errors" and said "But with every line, I kept thinking, 'How do I know THIS is accurate? If he couldn't even report what the Bible says accurately, how can I trust his scholarship on these ... Read More
Rating: - Good summary of Christian history
For some reason, I have not liked this work of narrative history that Paul Johnson has written, and for this reason I only give it four stars. While still being a well written book, it seems to hurry in some parts over critical junctures of Christian history, is somewhat too brief in other parts, and in others Johnson's prejudices show in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Johnson's history is a good overview of Christianity, but falls short of the excellence of his History of the Jews and ... Read More
Rating: - Has almost nothing about orthodoxy
I read this book translated to the portuguese, here in Brazil.This book has value and I could read many valuable informations about the history of Christianity.
This book has same failures:
1-Islam has very little space in it.
2-Has almost nothing about orthodoxy.
3-It was writen in 1975, and now it is a little outdated.
And some others failures.
Rating: - An ousider's opinion
This is the perspective of a non-Catholic, non-ecclesiastic American reader. "A History of Christianity" is a valuable perspective on the last 2000 years that is mostly ignored by traditional world histories. Perhaps because of the tradition of separation of church and state in the US or perhaps because of the narrow political focus of most histories, the effect of religion in general and Christianity in particular is rarely or never mentioned in the history books. On the other hand Mr. Johnson's book tends ... Read More
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