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

By Philip Jenkins

A lost history revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China.

Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years

By Philip Jenkins

Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these...

Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses

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Philip Jenkins identifies the "holy amnesia" that, while allowing scriptural religions to grow and adapt, has demanded a nearly wholesale suppression of the Bible's most aggressive passages, leavin...

The great and holy war

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Pedophiles and priests

By Philip Jenkins

If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. We have certainly seen many well-publicized case...

Mystics & Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

By Philip Jenkins

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

By Philip Jenkins

Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis

By Philip Jenkins

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

By Philip Jenkins

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

By Philip Jenkins