MacCulloch Diarmaid. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Penguin Group, 2009. — 984 p.Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China.
How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main facts, ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.
Taking in wars, empires, reformers, apostles, sects, churches and crusaders, Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how Christianity has brought humanity to the most terrible acts of cruelty - and inspired its most sublime accomplishments.A Millennium of Beginnings (1000 BCE-100 CE)
Greece and Rome (c. 1000 BCE-100 CE)
Israel (c. 1000 BCE-100 CE)
One Church, One Faith, One Lord? (4 BCE-451 CE)
A Crucified Messiah (4 BCE-100 CE)
Boundaries Defined (50 CE-300)
The Prince: Ally or Enemy? (100-300)
The Imperial Church (300-451)
Vanishing Futures: East and South (451-1500)
Defying Chalcedon: Asia and Africa (451-622)
Islam: The Great Realignment (622-1500)
The Unpredictable Rise of Rome (300-1300)
The Making of Latin Christianity (300-500)
Latin Christendom: New Frontiers (500-1000)
The West: Universal Emperor or Universal Pope? (900-1200)
A Church for All People? (1100-1300)
Orthodoxy: The Imperial Faith (451-1800)
Faith in a New Rome (451-900)
Orthodoxy: More Than an Empire (900-1700)
Russia: The Third Rome (900-1800)
Western Christianity Dismembered (1300-1800)
Perspectives on the True Church (1300-1517)
A House Divided (1517-1660)
Rome's Renewal (1500-1700)
A Worldwide Faith (1500-1800)
Protestant Awakenings (1600-1800)
God in the Dock (1492-present)
Enlightenment: Ally or Enemy? (1492-1815)
Europe Re-enchanted or Disenchanted? (1815-1914)
To Make the World Protestant (1700-1914)
Not Peace but a Sword (1914-60)
Culture Wars (1960-Present)Further Reading