A Short World History of Christianity
'To this day, reading good narrative history is a never-failing pleasure. History, that is, like Robert Bruce Mullin's A Short World History of Christianity. It is no easy business, getting two millennia of Christian history into 283 readable pages. But Professor Mullin has done the job, in a readable style that makes the fruits of his impressive ample scholarship available to a general audience.' --George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy CenterThis book should be welcomed by all who value clear writing, careful scholarship, succinct reporting, and carefully weighed judgments. If measured by standards of comprehensiveness or of answering every question in the long history of Christianity correctly, this book, like all others, must fail. But if measured by its success at portraying that history from below as well as from above, providing significant treatment of the Southern hemisphere along with the West, and incorporating the stories of many denominational families in a single account, then this book must be judged a resounding success. --Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor, History Department, University of Notre DameThis readable history reflects the sure instincts of a master teacher. Bruce Mullin s text integrates the theological and social dimensions of Christian history, providing readers with a masterful guide to the subject for many years to come. --Dana L. Robert, Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Christian Mission, Boston University School of Theology