A People’s History of Christianity: Student Edition: From the Early Church to the Reformation, Volume 1

by Denis R. Janz

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2014

Overview

On its release, the seven volume A Peoples History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available for classroom use.

This volume contains careful selections and abridgements of the original content organized to fit ideally into a course in Christian history. It provides a valuable overview on such topics as birth and death, baptism rites, food, power, heresy, and more. Students are both informed and inspired by seeing the importance of ordinary Christians in shaping Christianity across time.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The detritus of the past that has washed down to us and that we can study can be classified into two basic types: material and literary. Conventional historians have most often sought to understand the past through its literary remains. The problem here, of course, is that the extant written sources for at least the first 1,700 years of Christian history are almost always the products of elite culture. As such they give us access to the religious lives of nothing more than a tiny minority. The illiterate masses simply did not leave to posterity a clear account of their beliefs, values, and devotional practices, let alone their unspoken longings, fears, joys, and sorrows.” (Page 4)

Product Details

• Title: A People’s History of Christianity: Student Edition: From the Early Church to the Reformation, Volume 1
• Author: Denis R. Janz
• Edition: Student Edition
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 350
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church history; Christian life › History; Religion › Christian Church--History
• ISBNs: 9781451479744, 9781451470246, 9781451470253, 9781451479676, 9781451479751, 1451479743, 145147024X, 1451470258, 1451479670, 1451479751
• Resource ID: LLS:PPLSHSTRFRMTN01
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T06:02:44Z

About Denis R. Janz

Denis R. Janz is Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is the general editor of A People’s History of Christianity series and author of Luther and Late Medieval Thomism, Luther on Thomas Aquinas, and World Christianity and Marxism.