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by: Philip Jenkins See Larger Image List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $17.79 You Save: $9.16 (34%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $15.98 Third Party New Price: $16.47 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 270 EAN: 9780061472800 ISBN: 0061472808 Label: HarperOne Manufacturer: HarperOne Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: November 01, 2008 Publisher: HarperOne Release Date: October 28, 2008 Sales Rank: 6916 Studio: HarperOne Related Items: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South Home: A Novel see more Editorial Review: Product Description: In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers 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. The Lost History of Christianity unveils a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author recounts the shocking history of how these churches—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—died. Jenkins takes a stand against current scholars who assert that variant, alternative Christianities disappeared in the fourth and fifth centuries on the heels of a newly formed hierarchy under Constantine, intent on crushing unorthodox views. In reality, Jenkins says, the largest churches in the world were the “heretics” who lost the orthodoxy battles. These so-called heretics were in fact the most influential Christian groups throughout Asia, and their influence lasted an additional one thousand years beyond their supposed demise. Jenkins offers a new lens through which to view our world today, including the current conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Without this lost history, we lack an important element for understanding our collective religious past. By understanding the forgotten catastrophe that befell Christianity, we can appreciate the surprising new births that are occurring in our own time, once again making Christianity a true world religion. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Finally, a significant update for our Church history! As a person with an eastern heritage myself, I yearned for more information on Nestorians in my previous church history classes. And although everyone seemed to be much more aware of the objective view the American evangelicalism, no one really seemed to be knowledgeable when it came to the Christianity of the Eastern hemisphere, nor did they feel the need to know. However, this book sheds a bright light on the continuity of the early church and important lesson that comes with it. This ... Read More Rating: - Well Advertised but Written for the Non-professional The book presumes that groups declared heretical in the 4th century AD, nevertheless carried on while claiming to be authentic Christianity in vast portions of Asia and Africa. I haven't read beyond this point as of yet. I guess I kinda lost interest. Rating: - absolutely fascinating My view of the history of Christianity always had been one that began in the Middle East, then quickly spread west, roughly following the outline of the Roman Empire until the Middle East and Africa were lost to Islam. We'd always heard that Thomas the Apostle had gone to India, but it seemed as though that was an anomalous dead end. In the mid- to late-Middle Ages, the "center" of Christianity involved the trials and tribulations of the eventual rival Greek and Latin Churches, with a few tiny sects ... Read More Rating: - Where and why Christianity survived and thrived Two thousands years removed from scene, when the Apostle Paul includes Asian Christians in the salutation to some of his epistles, it is easy to read with an ironic and chuckle, knowing that he is referring just to the Byzantine "East", and just for the next 500 years or so until the Middle East would be conquered and converted to Islam. We know that Christianity would only survive and thrive in the Roman west, becoming a European religion; after all, a majority of Americans can trace their roots to ... Read More Rating: - Golden Age? Of Heresy. I started the book and realize that what is in front of me is a not very convincing apologetic for a sort of Christian relativism. I can see why Mr Jenkins is an ex Catholic in his extolling of the heresies of Nestorianism, Gnosticism, Monophysites and the like. It seems that, for Jenkins, anyone who was dissatisfied with proclamations or rulings on the faith vis a vis Church councils is, well, heroic in breaking off and setting up pseudo churches with bishops, priests, monks, etc. that ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Church History - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General Church History - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General AAS Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General AAS Religious Studies - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - History