TY - BOOK AU - Spickard, Paul R. AU - Cragg, Kevin M. TI - A global history of Christians : : how everyday believers experienced their world SN - 0801022495 (paper) AV - BR145.2 .S73 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Grand Rapids, MI. PB - Baker Academic KW - Churh History N1 - First published in 1994 as God's Peoples: A social history of Christians; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; The world of the first Christians -- Christians in the Roman world -- The fourth-century turning point -- The age of faith -- Eastern Orthodoxy: Christians who never changed? -- Christians in the non-Christian world to 1500 -- Transformation and Renaissance -- The Reformation -- European expansion, 1500-1800 -- European Christianity after the Reformation, 1600-1900 -- Early America -- Nineteenth-century Europe and North America: mission and uplift -- Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon, 1750-1950 -- The context for the modern church -- Twentieth-century Europe: the church in decline -- Twentieth-century America -- Around the world since World War II ER -