Christian, Art, Culture 

The artist and the poet, the musician and the storyteller have been inspired throughout the ages by the message of Christianity. In turn, they have adorned Christ's Church with some of man's finest works of mind, and hand. Now for the first time a wealth of material is drawn from each of the major arts by the noted anthologist, Cynthia Pearl Maus, and her collaborators, to illuminate, inform and inspire everyone who loves the Church's life and history. Every era of Christianity is brought to life through lavish illustration, eloquent literature, and lofty music: Christ and his family - the disciples and the beginnings of the Church - the early fathers and the Byzantine Empire, the age of monks, the establishment of cathedrals, the crusades, the flowering of the Christian Renaissance in Dante and Michelangelo, the new world of Luther and Calvin, the American frontier church, the dynamic missions in Asia, Africa, and South America. VOLUME IS ORGANIZED UNDER 6 SECTIONS: The Apostolic Church of the Palestinian Area / The Eastern Orthodox Church / The Roman Catholic Church / The Protestant Reformation in Europe / The Protestant Church in North America / Christianity, A World-Wide Religion