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A History of the Christian Church
The Story That Refused to Die
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36360837
EAN: 9798188993665
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Zustellung: Mi, 30.09.2026
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CHF 46.25
Beschreibung
A History of the Christian Church: The Story That Reshaped the World. Complete modernization of Walker's landmark 1918 text - every fact, date, and argument intact. Long, archaic sentences rebuilt into clear modern English - content unchanged, delivery transformed. Written for advanced students working in English as an additional language, and for any reader who wants the scholarship without the syntax fighting back. New closing unit, 1900 to the present: Pentecostalism, Vatican II, the church's shift to the Global South. In 1918, Yale historian Williston Walker did something almost no one else has managed before or since: he compressed nineteen centuries of Christian history. - every major branch, every continent - into a single volume with real proportion and real authority. It became the standard seminary textbook in America for most of the twentieth century. , still revised and used decades after its author's death. What has aged is not the scholarship. It's the sentences. Walker wrote for readers trained on formal Victorian prose, for whom a sixty-word sentence with three subordinate clauses was simply how serious books talked. That same prose, today, is a wall between the reader and the history on the other side of it - especially for the growing global readership studying theology in English. as their second or third language. This edition takes the wall down and leaves everything else standing. Long periodic sentences have been rebuilt into short, direct ones. Archaic vocabulary has been replaced with its modern equivalent. Technical terms are explained the moment they appear, not once somewhere earlier in the book. Nothing has been cut, summarized, or simplified in the sense of leaving things out. - every figure, date, and argument in Walker's original is still here, in a voice built to carry it clearly. See the difference for yourself. Walker, 1918:. "The birth of Christ saw the lands which surrounded the Mediterranean in the possession of Rome. All was held together by allegiance to a single Emperor, and by a common military system subject to him. ". This edition:. "When Christ was born, Rome controlled every land around the Mediterranean Sea. No empire before it had ever unified so much territory. One emperor held this whole world together. One military system enforced his rule. ". Same history, same facts, same argument - carried in sentences that don't make the reader do the historian's work of untangling syntax first. The result is a book that reads like a contemporary work of history. while remaining, in every substantive sense, Walker's own. Added:. Because Walker's own narrative necessarily stops in 1918, this edition adds an original closing unit. - written specifically for this book, not adapted from any existing source - carrying the story forward through the Second Vatican Council, the rise of global Pentecostalism, and the church's dramatic twentieth-century shift southward, so the reader isn't left with a history that quietly stops mattering a hundred years before the present.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Williston Walker
- Teemu J Lehtonen
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 476