Customer Reviews for Harpercollins Publishing The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
Harpercollins Publishing The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
A revealing study of the surprising and little-known story about the earliest, largest, and most influential Christian churches east of Rome. Jenkins explores how these communities became extinct after 1,000 years as the dominant Christian expression. He further demonstrates how those "lost era" believers shaped certain Muslim and Christian practices we know today. 315 pages, softcover from HarperOne.
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Customer Reviews for The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
Review 1 for The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
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Date:February 16, 2011
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This book gives a real and very important history of middle-eastern and eastern Christianity in contrast to the unlikely speculations of the Jesus Seminar.
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Review 2 for The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
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Very informative and well researched
Date:December 31, 2010
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The front cover tells us what the book is about: a 1000 year period history of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. It is about the Nestorian Church and churches similar to it. Jenkins illustrates how that during the period of roughly AD 400-1400 there were three very large groups of Christians who agreed with the Council of Nicea: the Catholics, the Greek Orthodox and the Nestorian and Jacobite churches. It is not about the non-Catholic Christians, such as the Donatists and the Paulicans, whose writings were nearly all destroyed. I don't agree with all of Jenkins' conclusions, but I learned much from this interesting and well-written book.
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Review 3 for The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
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Date:June 19, 2010
Rev. Justin Dean Vollmar
A very inspiring study of Christian churches. For many years, I struggled with the concept of Asia, Africa, and Middle East being mired in pagan and dark for more than a thousand year. I couldn't understand how all-powerful and loving God could have allowed this to happen. This book broke through my euro-centric, narrow understanding. My heart become so uplifted when I read of God's movement in those countries before it was darkened again. I now gladly share the info from the book to anyone who calls Christianity a white man's religion. I now tell them that Christians did spread gospel in those countries but due to many factors, they died out. Then providentially, God sent European missionaries in reaction to death of national Christians.
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Review 4 for The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and How It Died
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Date:January 8, 2010
Dr. David Tee
Jenkins does what so many atheists and others do, he lumps anyone who says the word christian into the same category. This book was disappointing and not what i was expecting. I was hoping for a treatise on those beievers who remained outside of the RCC but what is provided is just the same old thing. There is no real scholarship to this book and no attempt to investigate the history of believers properly. The RC church was not the only historical church, nor were the heretical ones the only alternative. It would be nice to have someone write a book investigating those true believers who seem to have been lost to history but continued in following Jesus and His ways but did not get any notice.
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