A Free Paperback and Additional Electronic Resources!
The electronic Logos Bible Software version of Tim Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity is an excellent value, but we've gone the extra mile to make this an even better deal. As with some of our other Augsburg Fortress titles, we are shipping the print edition of this book together with the electronic version.
Along with the paperback and electronic versions of Introduction to the History of Christianity, this product features two additional electronic titles. The first, Study Guide for Introduction to the History of Christianity, is designed to help the student get the most from this text and spark "critical thinking about the Christian community's historical structures, values, and relationships with other social forces." This excellent resource breaks the Introduction to the History of Christianity into easy-to-study sections and provides links to useful internet resources and other scholarly material.
The second resource, A Short Guide to Writing Research Papers on the History of Christianity, is meant to aid the student in the paper-writing process. Walking through the five steps of crafting a historical paper (1. choose a topic; 2. research your topic; 3. outline your argument; 4. write the first draft; and 5. refine the final paper), this is a great tool to be included with Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity. From information on which important resources to investigate during the writing process, to recommendations of where to begin the research phase, this is an excellent bonus tool for any student.
Product Details
Dowley's work tells in an engaging way the dramatic, intriguing, and often surprising story of Christians in their 2000-year journey. The print edition includes over 400 photographs and 30 maps, charts, and diagrams. The CD-ROM, new to this edition, contains the fully searchable text in Libronix software, chapter summaries and questions, Web links to further resources, and even a guide to doing research papers in this area. Note: The electronic edition does not contain reprints of the illustrations featured in the print edition of this work.
- Introduction to the History of Christianity
- Edited by Tim Dowley
- 672 pages, 2006
- Fortress Press
Praise for the Print Edition
This fine handbook . . . helps readers through the maze of complex Christian history . . .
— New York Times
This is a book whose honesty, scholarship, and general attractiveness commend it to even the nonreligious reader.
— Publishers Weekly
If you have only one church history book, this should be it...It will please both those who like to read about the past and those who never knew how interesting it could be.
— Christianity Today
From the Preface
Nearly two thousand years ago Jesus of Nazareth was put to death on a cross in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire. Today, world–wide faith in the risen Christ has grown as never before, not just in the so–called Christian West but in the new centres of Christianity in Africa, South–East Asia and South America. How has the belief of a handful of persecuted and frightened people in Jerusalem expanded into a faith capable of ‘turning the world upside–down’? How has it outlived the mighty Roman Empire—and outlasted the more recent empires of the last century? How did the Christian churches, denominations, movements, doctrines and beliefs we know today come into being? How has the faith been passed on from generation to generation, and from country to country? These are some of the questions we attempt to answer in this book. To write the full story of the rise of the Christian faith in one volume is an almost impossible task. But we have at least tried to tackle it. We have called on the expertise of many contributors to help open up the subject. We have involved writers from many countries throughout the world, and drawn on wide resources for photographs, illustrations and charts. Our aim has been to draw a rounded picture of the world–wide development of Christianity, focusing on the key movements, the outstanding Christian leaders, crucial turning–points, revolutionary breakthroughs. The compression necessary to a book of this length offers the prospect of exciting new perspectives across the centuries, a bird’s–eye view of two thousand years of Christianity.
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