A History of Christianity
It is hard to write a review of this book because I have been reading it sporadically for more than 2 years and just finished today. When I bought it I didn’t know much about Christianity and it various branches (as being educated in secular Soviet Union) so it was difficult reading due to many historical and theological facts. Now I plan to watch DVD series from the same author and already started reading multi-volume sets such as History of the Christian Church (Schaff, Protestant perspective), Studies in Church History (Parsons, Catholic perspective) and waiting for arrival of 9 volumes of Cambridge History of Christianity bought with a great discount from Folio Society.
Just a small note that the last chapters were brief but very enlightening, for example, last pages about the disappearing of Hell and the appearing of burning (cremation).
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
PS. Actually learning about Christian faith helped me to deeply understand my own Memory Religion (Memorianity) with its conception of original memory defect: Memory Religion: A Core Testament of Memorianity
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