Where can I learn about the history of Christianity, with as little bias as possible?

Where can I learn about the history of Christianity from a source with as little bias as possible?


I want to learn about the different movements within Christianity over the past 2 millenium. I want to know what early Christians believed, what Christians believed during 200 CE- 1899 CE.





I would like as little bias as possible. I don't want a source that is going to demonise the religion or one that is going to glorify it, I just want the facts.|||Take a college course on Christianity.|||Go to any seminary and ask for an intro to Old Testament or an Intro to New Testament book


A good example would be New Testament Story by David L Barr





or you can download this book from google that was used at Harvard Divinity School





The bible is a fairy tale based on other fairy tales, and if you go to books.google.com, you can download a book called Bible Myths and Their Parallels to Other Religions. It was written 150 years ago, and was used at Harvard Seminary. It proves that most bible stories were "copied and pasted" and aren't even original, let alone real, and the priests know this too.|||I would love to give you one "complete" resource for you, unfortunately, its kind of spread out a little. One book I will recommend is called: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong. She's one of the top respected theologians around. You may only be interested in the Christianity aspect of it, and its divided up so you can do that, but the rest is fairly interesting too.


http://www.amazon.com/History-God-000-Ye鈥?/a>


You can buy it in the used sections for less than a dollar (plus shipping).|||This is such a controversial issue for you to research, that you have set yourself a difficult task.





You can search;


facts of Christianity 200 CE - 1899 CE





I suggest you try several different search engines for this purpose.





I hope you find what you are looking for.|||I had to read this book at College "Christianity Through the Centuries: A History of the Christian Church" by Earle E. Cairns. It does just want you are looking for. It is like 500 pages, but it is fairly unbiased. It is written by a Christian I am pretty sure, but it is not "glorified."|||I would say the Bible (King James Version) is the best source. However, The internet is a useful tool. I use Google, I feel it gives me the best results. I have learned alot about Paganism and what it has done in history, I have learned about how the calendars of today are in fact wrong. They are off by about three days. I have learned there are 11 commandments not 10. I have learned that The Israelites of the 12 tribes were Gods chosen, and their seeds of generations of today, and that those that follow God, are seeds by association. I learned that one of those tribes were destroyed for disobeying God. I learned that Jesus did rest in his grave three days and three nights. That he died the day before Sabbath and didn't rise on Sunday, instead on Monday. Mary saw him on the first day of the week and he hadn't yet ascended, some would think that because she saw him that he had risen, However, he was still going through his transition. There is so much truth in the Bible, I suggest reading it from cover to cover. You will find all your answers. Trust me.|||The history of Christianity is frought with bias... they wrote their own history during those eras...|||I'd recommend Paul Johnson's A History of Christianity|||Try a library.|||Try the library.|||Look up the Gnostics.|||good luck|||The Holy Scriptures were first called the Bible by St. Chrysostom, the Catholic Archbishop of Constantinople, in the 4th century.








Evodius was the first Bishop of Antioch a Catholic, and he is credited with being the first person to call the followers of Christ, "Christians", as shown in Acts 11:26. See Eusebius, book 3, chapter 22.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05653a.h鈥?/a>








Saint Ignatius (35-107), the second Bishop of Antioch wrote a letter to the Smyrneans in 107 A.D..


In this letter is recorded the first known use of the words "Catholic Church"...


Paragraph #8


"You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment. Let no one do anything touching the Church, apart from the bishop. Let that celebration of the Eucharist be considered valid which is held under the bishop or anyone to whom he has committed it. Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not permitted without authorization from the bishop either to baptize or to hold an agape; but whatever he approves is also pleasing to God. Thus everything you do will be proof against danger and valid." The first recorded use of the word is found in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch, who was a young man during the time of the apostles and was the second bishop of Antioch following Peter, who went on to become bishop of Rome. Ignatius was immersed in the living traditions of the local church in Antioch, where the believers in Christ were first called Christians (cf. Acts 11:26). He was taught and ordained directly by the apostles. From the apostles Ignatius learned what the Church was鈥攈ow it was to function, grow, and be governed.