The pagoda is also the long-lost, earliest surviving Christian monastery in China, called Da Qin. Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the origin of Christianity, and how the religion’s past ...

This ancient collection of liturgical ... Mohammed signed a charter "in aid of the Christians" with a gold handprint. A copy of this, guaranteeing the monastery's protection, hangs in the museum.

and clear book will appeal to historians of the emotions as well as scholars of early Christianity, monasticism, and the history of spirituality. An impressive achievement.' David Brakke - The Ohio ...