Christianity + Christian history

Book Reviews

• Steve Bruce: God is Dead
  Secularization in the West
• Gordon Campbell: Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011
  - from its precursors to the 21st Century
• John Dominic Crossan: The Historical Jesus*
  The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
• John Dominic Crossan: Who Killed Jesus?
  Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
• Robert Graves: King Jesus
  - mythological musings dressed up as a novel
• Bernard Guenée: Between Church and State*
  The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
• Michael Hampson: Last Rites
  The End of the Church of England
• Malcolm Lambert: The Cathars
  - a solid academic survey
• R.A. Markus: The End of Ancient Christianity
  - changes in Western Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries
• Wayne A. Meeks: The First Urban Christians
  The Social World of the Apostle Paul
• Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern: Millennial Markers
  - papers on Pacific millenarianism
• The NIV Study Bible

See also: Islam | Israel + Judaism | religion

You might be interested in my explanation of why I am not a Christian.