A review by kayman17
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Amazing book. A masterful triumph of intellectual, cultural, philosophical, and religious history. From Ancient Israel and Classical Greece, through Roman and Medieval Christendom, World War II, the so-called "Death of God", all the way through the Ecumenical Movement and Vatican II, this book thoroughly covers everything up to just shy of our "Prosperity Gospel" and new Christian Nationalism in the 2010s and 2020s (perhaps a work for a volume 2 à la Ken Burns's "The Tenth Inning", perhaps?). Incredible work. Easily one of my all-time favorite works in history. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5.