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

5.0

As a church historian, I'm always looking for good, well-balanced, and researched studies of Christian history. MacCulloch offers a masterful, and very readable, though massive narrative that takes us back not just to Jesus, but the origins of Christianity much earlier in Greco-Roman and Jewish thought and practice. From there, he traces the story up to the present, not neglecting the oft neglected stories of the church in the East, in Africa, and other places of the world. Of course, being British, the Brits figure prominently -- but that's to be expected. This is probably the definitive overview available today.