A Brief Walk through Christian History: Discover the People, Movements, and Ideas That Transformed Our World

How Christianity Grew from a Dozen Disciples to a Worldwide Movement

At the beginning of the first century, a teacher named Jesus of Nazareth shook Roman-occupied Israel with his preaching and teaching. When, several years later, the Romans crucified Jesus and sealed him in a tomb, his disciples were crushed and confused.

Two thousand years later, more than two billion followers of Jesus can be found around the globe. Justin Gatlin tells the story of how that happened—from the miraculous resu...