A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story - Hardcover

Bass, Diana Butler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061448702 ISBN 13: 9780061448706

Publisher: Harperone, 2009

Synopsis

Traces a grassroots movement through which Christians throughout the past two millennia have worked to preserve Jesus's message of social justice; in an account that discusses such topics as care for the environment, pacifism as a response to war, and the celebration of human sexuality.

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Review:

It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading this book without finding some new insight or inspiration, some new and unexpected testimony to the astonishing breadth of Christianity through the centuries. --Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity

Interesting, insightful, illuminating, and remarkably relevant. --Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity

Charmingly written and refreshing to read, yet rich in details and thorough in its mapping of the major themes and events that have shaped the evolution of the Western Church, A People's History is our story re-told with both clear-eyed affection and a scholar s acumen --Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence

Interesting, insightful, illuminating, and remarkably relevant. --Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity

About the Author:

Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a PhD in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of seven books, including the bestselling Christianity for the Rest of Us, released by HarperOne in 2006. It was named as one of the best religion books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Christian Century, won the Book of the Year Award from the Academy of Parish Clergy, and was featured in a cover story in USA Today. Her much-anticipated next book, A People's History of Christianity, will be released in March 2009 from HarperOne. She is currently Senior Fellow at the Cathedral College of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Bass regularly consults with religious organizations, leads conferences for religious leaders, and teaches and preaches in a variety of venues. Bass blogs at Progressive Revival on Beliefnet and Sojourners' God's Politics. She regularly comments on religion, politics, and culture in the media including USA Today, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNN, FOX, PBS, and NPR. From 1995 to 2000, she wrote a weekly column on American religion for the New York Times syndicate. She has written widely in the religious press, including Sojourners, Christian Century, Clergy Journal, and Congregations. From 2002 to 2006, she was the Project Director of a national Lilly Endowment funded study of mainline Protestant vitality a project featured in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Bass also serves on the board of directors of the Beatitudes Society. She has taught at Westmont College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Macalester College, Rhodes College, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. She has taught church history, American religious history, history of Christian thought, religion and politics, and congregational studies. Bass and her husband, Richard, live with their family in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a member of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in downtown Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperone
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061448702
• ISBN 13: 9780061448706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 353