A history of Christianity
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Bok · Engelsk · 1953
| Utgitt | New York, N.Y. : Harper & Brothers , cop. 1953
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| Omfang | XXVII, 1516 s., [1] fold. pl.
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| Opplysninger | Kart på folded blad. - Også utg.: London : Eyre and Spottiswoode. - Never before has the whole panorama of Christianity in history been scope and inclusiveness in a single volume. One of the great church historians of all time has herein compressed and codified his learning in such form as to give the student and general reader a complete and comprehensive view of the Christian enterprise through nineteen centuries. Both in manner of organization and in clear style, it is as readable as it is thorough. Without a doubt, it is fortunate that a scholar of the superb equipment of Dr. Latourette should have appeared at such time in history when research, communications and the amassing of documents are at so high a state of development as to make possible such a matchless history. The same conditions that accompanied the emergence of a Toynbee and his Study of History now are present for the publication of Latourette's A History of Christianity. All phases of human history are surveyed and examined to provide the setting for this history of Christianity. Moreover, the purview encompasses the culture of the whole world since the dawn of Christendom, not just Western Europe as most previous histories have done. Recent church history, fully treated right up to mid-twentieth century, is included here. The devotional climate of all important times and places also receives consideration, not merely the modes of worship. Finally, the whole is contained in a thoroughgoing philosophy of history. In accuracy, in its broad scope, in the extraordinarily full coverage given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, A History of Christianity invites comparisons with every historical treatment of the church now available. It will remain unchallenged in its field and in demand for generations to come
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