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Twelve Churches lydbok
296,-
'brilliantly inventive'. - Tom Holland'learned, highly informative and readable'. - Literary Review'thoughtful, humane and open-minded'. - Kirkus Reviews'A brilliant book'. - Library Journal'witty writing'. - The Times***With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is so passionate about. In this book he takes us from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ some 2000-odd years ago, to the immediate prese…
Undertittel
An unlikely history of the buildings that made Christianity
Forlag
Hodder & Stoughton
Utgitt
28 august 2025
Lengde
14:12
Sjanger
Religion og livssyn, Dokumentar og fakta
Språk
English
Format
mp3
DRM-beskyttelse
App-only
ISBN
9781399731348
'brilliantly inventive'. - Tom Holland
'learned, highly informative and readable'. - Literary Review
'thoughtful, humane and open-minded'. - Kirkus Reviews
'A brilliant book'. - Library Journal
'witty writing'. - The Times
***
With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is so passionate about.
In this book he takes us from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ some 2000-odd years ago, to the immediate present and future of Christianity. He brings together a Baptist Church in the segregationist American South with a medieval monastery in the heart of the Greek countryside; the Vatican - beautiful, imposing, vainglorious, the seat of Catholicism - with a sparse, tiny private church above the rocky coastline of Southern Japan.
Twelve Churches is a quest for a new people's history of Christianity, told through the stories of twelve churches scattered across the globe. Through a patchwork of interlinking and varied human stories, Butler-Gallie takes us on a physical and historical journey, exploring the role of hope, faith and beauty in Christianity, but also its fraught relationships with sex, violence and power.
The story of Christianity is, he shows, the story of our modern world: it's a story of who we should be, as well who we sometimes are.
'learned, highly informative and readable'. - Literary Review
'thoughtful, humane and open-minded'. - Kirkus Reviews
'A brilliant book'. - Library Journal
'witty writing'. - The Times
***
With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is so passionate about.
In this book he takes us from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ some 2000-odd years ago, to the immediate present and future of Christianity. He brings together a Baptist Church in the segregationist American South with a medieval monastery in the heart of the Greek countryside; the Vatican - beautiful, imposing, vainglorious, the seat of Catholicism - with a sparse, tiny private church above the rocky coastline of Southern Japan.
Twelve Churches is a quest for a new people's history of Christianity, told through the stories of twelve churches scattered across the globe. Through a patchwork of interlinking and varied human stories, Butler-Gallie takes us on a physical and historical journey, exploring the role of hope, faith and beauty in Christianity, but also its fraught relationships with sex, violence and power.
The story of Christianity is, he shows, the story of our modern world: it's a story of who we should be, as well who we sometimes are.
