The Lost History of Christianity, Philip Jenkins
The Lost History of Christianity, Philip Jenkins
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The Lost History of Christianity
The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia---and How It Died

Author: Philip Jenkins

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/11/2008

Synopsis

The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history. Leading religion scholar Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the earliest, most influential churches of the East—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—died. In this paradigm-shifting book, Jenkins recovers a lost history, showing how the center of Christianity for centuries used to be the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, extending as far as China.

Without this lost history, we can't understand Islam or the Middle East, especially Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Complete with maps, statistics, and fascinating stories and characters that no one in the media or the general public has ever heard of, The Lost History of Christianity will immerse the listener in a lost world that was once the heart of Christianity.

About Philip Jenkins

Philip Jenkins was educated at Cambridge University, and for many years taught at Penn State. He is presently Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, where his main appointment is in the Institute for Studies of Religion. The Economist magazine has called him "one of America's best scholars of religion." He has published thirty books, which have been translated into sixteen languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin on August 21, 2010

Not really what I was hoping for, nor what it's advertized as. Most of the book, I would say, is taken up with a) complaints that Europeans and their descendants know too little about the churches of the East and b) attempts to make the history of those churches 'relevant.' You know what? I would mu......more

Goodreads review by David on December 18, 2015

The Story of the Middle Eastern Church 19 December 2015 Well, here I am sitting on the Overland, one of the very few interstate trains that exist in Australia - when it comes to travelling interstate, or even to regional centres, most Australians rely upon the humble aeroplane, which is not surprisin......more

Goodreads review by Terence on January 06, 2023

This is an interesting look at the eastern arm of the Christian church, which survived for a thousand years under non-Christian polities (largely Muslim) and, arguably, flourished up through the 14th century AD. Only because of the vagaries of history (or the inscrutable machinations of God, dependi......more

Goodreads review by Matt on February 21, 2015

I've never read a history that so thoroughly convinced me that everything I thought I knew about a topic was wrong. The history of Christianity I was taught ran through Europe. Yet much of the populations Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa were Christian for a hundreds of years, if not a mil......more

Goodreads review by Suzannah Rowntree on September 11, 2024

This book could be the most important history text you've never read. It's written to be popular and readable by the layperson, but that doesn't make it historically lightweight. While I didn't always agree with the author's commentary, I came to the book after approximately ten years of intermitten......more

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