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'This is a brilliant, shocking book ...also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ...it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian 'The Kingdom, already ...
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On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017. WINNER OF THE GERDA HENKEL FOUNDATION PRIZE 2016. A New Statesman ...
Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of ...
Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean ...
Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own ...
The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect Pontius Pilate ...
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched ...
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