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Bruce Shelley’s classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, Shelley begins each chapter with three elements: characters, setting, plot. Taking readers from the early centuries of the church up through the modern era he tells his readers a story of actual people, in a particular situation, taking action or being...

The long-range results of two centuries of crusading zeal are not impressive. If the primary purposes of the Crusades were to win the Holy Land, to check the advance of Islam, and to heal the schism between the Eastern and Western churches, then the Crusades failed miserably. For a time four kingdoms, led by Jerusalem, were established along the eastern Mediterranean coast of the Holy Land. In these the Crusades created three semimonastic military orders: the Templars (or
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