The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity

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A major landmark of religious publishing and one to be widely welcomed.William Dalrymple New York Times The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1 000 primary texts accompanied by headnotes annotations glossaries maps illustrations chronologies and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection will unsettle some current certainties about the nature of faith and in so doing may help its readers arrive at a nuanced and accurate perception of our predicament in this dangerously polarized world (Karen Armstrong New York Times). Unprecedented in scope and approach The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. The volume features Jack Miless illuminating General IntroductionHow the West Learned to Compare Religionsas well as Lawrence S. Cunninghams The Words and the Word Made Flesh a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity.