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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...

Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God. “Dear dying Lamb,” believers sing, “Thy precious blood shall never lose its power, till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more.” Crucifixion was a barbarous death, reserved for rebels, pirates, and slaves. Jewish law cursed “everyone who hangs on a tree,” and Roman statesman Cicero warned, “Let the very name of the cross be far, not only
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