The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium

"Before there was a West, there was Christendom. This book tells the story of how both came to be." (from the Introduction)

The Age of Paradise is the first of a projected four-volume history of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that gave rise to what we now call the West. At a time of renewed interest in the future of Western culture, author John Strickland-an Orthodox scholar, professor, and priest-offers a vision rooted in the deep past of the first millennium. At the...