(, Annotated edition)

Useful for students, this book helps them get to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. It contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of modern social, historical and intellectual revolutions.

(, Annotated edition)

Useful for students, this book helps them get to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. It contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of modern social, historical and intellectual revolutions.

Christianity began with the words and deeds of an obscure village carpenter's son who died a shameful criminal's death at the hands of the Roman occupiers of his country. This book shows that the history of the religion, while often glorious, is not one of unimpeded progress, but something still more remarkable, flawed and human.