History of Christianity in Asia
Subtitle: 1500 To 1900
Edition: 2nd Rev. and Corrected Ed edition
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9781570754500
Subjects: Christianity; Church history; Religion - Church History; Religion; Asia - General; Christianity - History - General; Asia
First sentence: ROUNDING Africa in search of the Orient at the beginning of the West's great age of discovery, European explorers first touched land in Asia on the same long stretch of southeast India's Malabar coast where Indian tradition locates the landing of the apostle Thomas some fifteen hundred years before.