The Christian World

"In this volume, Christian historian Martin Marty delivers an account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world's largest religion. He depicts the life of Christ and his teachings and explains how the apostles set out to spread the Gospel. With a special emphasis on global Christianity, he shows how the religion emerged from its ancestral homelands in Africa, the Levant, and Asia Minor, was imported to Europe, and then spread from there to the rest of the world, most often via trade and conquest. While giving a broad overview, Marty also focuses on specific issues, such as how Christianity struggles with the polar tensions inherent to many of the faith's denominations, and how it attempts to reconcile some of its stances on armed conflict, justice, and dominion with the teachings of Christ."--BOOK JACKET.Marty, Martin E. is the author of 'The Christian World', published 2008 under ISBN 9780679643494 and ISBN 0679643494.