Heresies in Early Christianity: Reading time about 6-7 minutes. Early Christianity outside Europe This is the third of a four-part series of posts about the origin of the Christian Church, or more accurately, churches. So far, I’ve written about the transformation of Saul, the persecutor of Jesus’s followers, to Paul, the dedicated Christian apostle. I […]
Who is the “Real Christian”? Reading Time: Approximately 7 minutes. This is the second installment of my four part series concerning “Real Christians,” following up on The Mysterious Paul of Tarsus. In the conclusion of my book, In Search of Christian Origins: A Timeline of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, I stated […]
A large percentage of us are visual learners, meaning we retain what we’ve seen better than what we’ve heard. I am definitely one of those visual learners, so when I study history, I rely heavily on maps, diagrams, and photographs. There are no maps in my book because if I started adding them, I wouldn’t […]
CHAPTER 19: Nineteenth Century Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Smith, Felix Mendelssohn, Andrew Jackson, William Miller, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Livingstone, Charles Dickens, Alexander von Humboldt, Brigham Young, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Queen Victoria, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Hudson Taylor, Soren Kierkegaard, Gregor Mendel, Charles Darwin, […]
CHAPTER 12: Twelfth Century The Humiliati, Henrician, Waldensian Christian sects appear. Militant monastic orders are established in the Holy Land. Peter Abelard is one of the first scholars to explore Christianity from a rational perspective. The first European universities are founded. The Investiture Controversy seeks to establish who has the authority to appoint bishops. Magnificent […]
At my book launch party, it occurred to me that it would really help my readers if I supplied some sort of index for the book. I had avoided that during the writing and editing phase because it would have been overwhelming for me at that time. I spent so much effort on the glossary […]