Christianity
The First Three Thousand Years
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Christianity
Narrado por:
Walter Dixon
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Walter Dixon
Once in a generation, a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read and heard - a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.
Christianity will teach modern listeners things that have been lost in time about how Jesus' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This audiobook encompasses all of intellectual history - we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II.
We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, The Reformation, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.
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"Assuming no previous knowledge on the part of readers about Christian traditions, MacCulloch traces in breathtaking detail the often contentious arguments within Christianity for the past 3,000 years. His monumental achievement will not soon be surpassed." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A work of exceptional breadth and subtlety." ( Booklist)
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One of the hardest areas of Christian history to grasp is the centuries-long debate about the nature of the Trinity, and its equally long-lasting partner, the debate about the exact nature of Christ. (Human? Divine? Both? If both, what percentage of each, and how mixed or not mixed?) It's a story of determined attempts to fashion a creed and equally determined attempts to resist credal formulations. MacCulloch navigates this territory well, giving plenty of time to each viewpoint and noting that many of the viewpoints, assumed by many Christians to be long dead, are in fact alive and thriving in one or another sect to the present day.
MacCulloch is writing as a friendly outsider, which pretty well sums up my position as a listener. His attempts to describe Christianity's romance with temporal power, and its frequent turning of a blind eye to social injustice, may offend some people. My own impression is that his account is balanced and largely non-judgemental. Highly recommended.
Detailed, expansive, and memorable
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This is not to say that the book is cumbersome or weighed down by minutia, it is not. The story is told in a brisk, efficient manner, logically laid out and well written. The history is given according to epoch, region and spiritual movement. There is no jumping between places and people or ideas.
For me the material and its treatment makes clear that, in essence, every religion is the same. Most if not all of the early religions were polytheistic and essentially consisted of a cast of characters that sprang from a creation myth. There was a head god, one or more lieutenants, a throng of other characters responsible for the various actions of the earth, environment or mysteries of existence that needed explaining. There is human relating, human/deity pairings, blended offspring and drama. There are exceptions, the early religions of Asia, for instance, which have features of the the others but other ideas, consistent with the needs of the culture or the peculiarities of geography or circumstance in the region of origin.
Later religions too have a similar pattern. All generally descend from the ideas one charismatic individual, whose work is eventually codified, politicized and overtaken by the power dynamics of all human enterprise. I am tempted to say that Buddhism is an exception, but an investigation of various iterations around Asia make clear that that is not so.
Christianity is no exception. In its bare bones it is a cult of personality, built around a poor rabbi trying to reform his religion and prepare his people for the coming end of the world. The spread of the religion is primarily due to the work of Saul (Paul) of Tarsis, the only disciple who advocated teaching Christ’s message to non-Jewish congregations
This is all a a gross simplification of almost 50 hours of material, but I do it to make the point that the book’s presentation covers the material in a way that is short on miracles and long on group dynamics, politics and human desire for power, in addition to the drive for transcendence that all humans share.
The book is required reading for any person seeking to understand Christianity today.
Required reading
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I find it amazing that mankind put so much effort and resource into the promotion of what, in the end, is just a unique vision - fantasy actually - of something he/she thinks of as his god. When I sit back to reflect on this, I can not help to wonder WHY so many have believed it to be a life or death matter that all must worship the exact same creation fantasy in the exact same manner. To this end thousands of wars have been fought. Millions of people have been killed tortured and deprived of all that makes life worthwhile. Empires have been made and empires have been toppled. Thousands of churches and other "holy" places, at an enormous expense, have been built. Entire societies and nations have been created and destroyed. Nearly all of this happened simply because of teachings that were "reported by unknown chroniclers" of an illiterate man who lived in a remote area of the world and who preached for only three years.
MacCulloch's reporting of all of this is thorough and professional. I seriously doubt that one need to read any book but his to understand the history of each and every flavor of Christianity throughout the last 2,000+ years.
Nothing is left out..
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Accuracy
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This book is specifically geared towards pretty much anyone who wants the details as well as the broad strokes. It covers the history of Christianity from the onset of Judaism as an offshoot of earlier traditions, Christianity's beginnings as an offshoot of that, and covers its evolution not just in Western Europe, but also in Greece, Russia, Africa, Korea, and all parts of the globe where the cross is held high. It goes even further as Islam splinters from that, and the history of the Middle Eastern faiths are examined as an intertwined whole. As it goes, the reader is given another portrait to absorb as the beliefs evolve in the various corners of the globe, across time and through politics or scholarly pursuits.
In short, this is the most complete picture of Christianity that I've certainly ever encountered, and it's helped my understanding of history considerably. Special kudos not only to what it covers and why, but also how, as the outline for this book is nothing short of daunting. To cover this topic so completely is nothing short of a feat.
As one might expect, a history of this depth and magnitude will likely call into question the faith of a devout individual reading this book as not everything is as tradition holds to be true in our day and age, and as that tradition may vary depending on which sect you follow. I would challenge that the scholarly will find a great deal of wealth here, and the religiously-minded will be confronted with questions fundamental to their faith. How those questions are answered will ultimately be determined by individual willingness to see past the rigid and into the changing waters of history. Some are more readily accepting of this than others, obviously, everyone has to approach the question their own way. Being a hefty monster of a tome, however, this one is most definitely aimed at the serious scholar, regardless of the historical or spiritual approach.
The Evolution of a Religion
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