Telling the whole story: Christian history in global perspective.

From: The Christian Century | Date: July 17, 2002| Author: McVey, Kathleen E. | Copyright information

History of the World Christian Movement (Vol. 1): Earliest Christianity to 1453. By Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist. Orbis, 519 pp., $30.00 paperback.

AS HISTORIANS have become aware of Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon, the traditional division between "church history" and the "history of mission" has come to seem strange and inappropriate. The early Christian encounter with Greco-Roman religion and the 19th-century Christian encounter with Hinduism seem more s...

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