how everyday believers experienced their world Spickard, Paul R. 1950- creator Cragg, Kevin M. text xxu Grand Rapids, MI Baker Academic C.1994 monographic eng

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486 p. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Contents: The world of the first Christians -- Christians in the Roman world -- The fourth-century turning point -- The age of faith -- Eastern Orthodoxy: Christians who never changed? -- Christians in the non-Christian world to 1500 -- Transformation and Renaissance -- The Reformation -- European expansion, 1500-1800 -- European Christianity after the Reformation, 1600-1900 -- Early America -- Nineteenth-century Europe and North America: mission and uplift -- Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon, 1750-1950 -- The context for the modern church -- Twentieth-century Europe: the church in decline -- Twentieth-century America -- Around the world since World War II. Paul R Spickard; Kevin M Cragg. First published in 1994 as God's Peoples: A social history of Christians. Includes bibliographical references and index. Churh History BR145.2 .S73 1994 0801022495 (paper) 9780801022494 (paper) 45747268 150625 20160120132027.0