The Lost History of Christianity

The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

Ranked #20 in Church History, Ranked #76 in History of Christianity

In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China. The Lost History of Christianity unveils a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author... more

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