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Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

By John Philip Jenkins

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Year
2010
ISBN
0061768936, 978-0061768934, 0061768944, 978-0061768941
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
702 kB (718700 bytes)
Pages
355\0
Topic
Religion
Time added
2015-02-24 03:42:13

Description

The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the ChurchIn this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful charactersshaped Christian doctrine. Were it not for these battles, today’s church could beteaching something very different about the nature of Jesus, and the papacy as weknow it would never have come into existence. Jesus Wars reveals the profoundimplications of what amounts to an accident of history: that one faction ofRoman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another.

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