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This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle East towards Rome and into Europe, paving the way for the Enlightenment, science and modernity. However, Philip Jenkins reveals, the largest and most influential churches of Christianity's youth lay to the east of Rome, covered the world from China to North Africa, encountered a full spectrum of acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule and only expired after a thousand-year reign after Constantine. This is the story of these churches of the East and how they became extinct - but not before becoming the dominant expression of Christianity for its first 1,000 years and helping to shape both the Asia and the Christianity we know today.

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In leaner, clearer prose than ever before, Jenkins outlines and analyzes this history, which few present-day Christians have even heard of. This may be the most eye-opening history book of the year. --Booklist

[Jenkins ] depiction of the long Christian history of Asia, Mesopotamia, and the greater Middle East is both a much-needed education and a spiritually fruitful provocation. --Books & Culture

In this highly readable and sobering exploration of how religions - including our own - grow, falter and sometimes die, Jenkins adds a unique dimension to present day religious studies in a voice and style that non-specialists can also appreciate. --Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University

Philip Jenkins always writes well on very interesting topics. This time his topic is more than interesting-it is essential reading for anyone with any interest in the history of Christianity. --Rodney Stark, author of The Rise of Christianity

Philip Jenkins book is a tour de force in historical retrieval and reconstruction, a work of scholarly restoration that strikes an overdue balance in the story of Christianity. It is studded with insight, with the story presented in a lively and lucid style. --Lamin Sanneh, Professor of World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University

...an exceptionally fine study of a great swathe of Christian history, hugely important in the Christian story but very little known. This thoughtful, elegant and learned survey will remedy the neglect of a subject which students of religion absolutely need to know about. --Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford and author of The Reformation

Philip Jenkins s marvelous new book...tells the largely forgotten story of Nisibis, and thousands of sites like it, which stretch from Morocco to Kenya to India to China, and which were, deep into the second millennium, the heart of the church. --The Weekly Standard

Jenkins is one of America s top religious scholars. --Forbes

. . . persuasively and cogently argued . . . marvelously accessible for the lay reader and replete with fascinating details to help personalize the ambitious sweep of global history Jenkins undertakes. This is an important counterweight to previous histories that have focused almost exclusively on Christianity in the West. --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Jenkins s well-crafted new volume...is not only a welcome addition to the literature on Christianity as a truly global religion, to which he has already made substantial contributions, but also an invitation to retrieve a forgotten chapter of history that has not inconsiderable relevance to current events. --Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
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This book tells the surprising and little known story of how the earliest, most influential Christian churches of the East (China, India, and Middle East) became extinct - but not before becoming the dominant expression of Christianity for its first 1000 years and helping to shape both the Asia and the Christianity we know today. "The Lost History of Christianity" also reveals the full range from acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule and the surprising indebtedness of many Muslim practices and beliefs to these lost Christian communities.

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