Disciples of all nations : pillars of world Christianity / Lamin Sanneh.

Tracing Christianity's rise from its birth on the edge of the Roman empire--when it proclaimed itself to be a religion for the entire world, not just for one people, one time, and one place--to its key role in Europe's maritime and colonial expansion, Sanneh sheds new light on the ways in...

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Main Author: Sanneh, Lamin O.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford studies in world Christianity.
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