The Kingdoms of Christ: The Story of the Early Church by Peter Bamm, 1959, Vintage Illustrated Hardback

The Kingdoms of Christ: The Story of the Early Church by Peter Bamm, 1959, published by Thames and Hudson, London. Hardback, 368 pages

365 illustrations, 18 Colour Plates

This vintage hardback is illustrated throughout with black and white photos and drawings.

It is in good condition:
- the original dust-jacket has some wear, rubbing, small creases and tears along the edges
- inside, there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing

24.5cm x 18cm x 3.5cm approx.

Blurb starts:
This beautiful and truly inspiring book begins with the days when the Apostles set out, obeying their orders to "Go forth into the world and teach all peoples...', and ends in the early Middle Ages, when, after the spreading of the gospel to almost all the countries of the Old World, the new Europe begins to develop. Peter Bann tells of saints and martyrs - of the Apostle Paul's career in Athens and Rome, of the Apostle John's great vision of the end of the world, experienced on the rocky islet of Patmos - of Christianity marching to victory in imperial Rome, of the centuries when the new faith was transcendent in Byzantium. In Spain, we see the growth and then the overthrow of the Church in that land by the barbarian invaders from the north, and later by the Arabs from Africa. We learns how the fins of archaeologists continue to give us new and incontrovertible evidence to support the records of the lives and events that shaped Christianity's growth....


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