Christians in Asia Before 1500

by Ian Gillman, Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, Ian Gilman

The history of Christianity in Asia has, until recently, been little dealt with either by church historians or historians of religion. It is still generally unknown, for instance, that there was a long history of Christianity in Persia, India, Central Asia, and China long before the arrival of the first missionaries from the west. Troubled by this gap in knowledge, Ian Gillman and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit have put together a volume that documents the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472110403
• ISBN13: 9780472110407
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"