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Part storybook, part textbook, part historical overview, Parade of Faith presents the history of Christianity in riveting fashion. Ruth Tucker adopts the metaphor of a parade, journey, or pilgrimage to explore the history of Christianity, which began as the Messiah marched out of the pages of the Old Testament and will end one day when “the saints go marching in” to the New Jerusalem. The book is...

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place.… But their place is not simply back there.… [I]t is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. DAVID LOWENTHAL No history is more assimilated into ourselves and resurrected into an ever-changing present than biblical history. Christians have never granted the ancient biblical characters a place simply back there. We assume we know them and that they are us—the
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