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. 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 Miles's illuminating General Introduction“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”as well as Lawrence S. Cunningham's “The Words and the Word Made Flesh,” a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity.

How the West Learned to Compare Religions / Jack Miles -- The Words and the Word Made Flesh / Lawrence S. Cunningham -- The Apostolic Era, 4 B.C.E.-100 C.E. The Old Testament -- The New Testament -- The Patristic Era, 100-600 C.E. Early Christian Worship -- The Roman Persecutions -- Other Christian Gospels -- Articulations of Christian Belief -- Biographical and Autobiographical Texts -- Early Christian Hymnody -- The Ascetic Tradition -- The Middle Ages, 600-1300. Missionary Expansion -- Medieval Monasticism -- The Mendicant Tradition -- Medieval Latin Hymnody -- The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1517. Visions of Hell and Heaven, Creation and Creator -- Outspoken Women and the First Stirrings of Reform -- Reformations and the Wars of Religion, 1517-1700. Pillars of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, France, and England -- Dueling Martyrologies : Christian contra Christian -- Spanish Mystics of the Catholic Reformation -- Christianity Reaches the New World and China -- Baroque Devotion in a Century of Conversion and Counterconversion -- Epics of Salvation -- Protestant Catholics, Catholic Protestants, and Beyond -- Encounters with Modernity, 1700-1914. The Bible within the Limits of Reason Alone -- Romanticism, Nature, and the Christianity of the Heart -- Scandal and Paradox, Fear and Faith -- The Sea of Faith: Ebb or Flood? -- The Twentieth Century, 1914-2001 -- The New Millennium, 2001-the Present.