Icelandic Church Saga

by John Charles Fulton Hood

This book chronicles the traces of early Christianity in the island among pre-settlement Culdees and early settlers, the official adoption of Christianity in 1000, the medieval consolidation and eventual decay of the Church, the imposition of the Lutheran reformation, the development of mysticism in the 17th century, and the state of the Icelandic church through the 20th century to World War II.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313221944
• ISBN13: 9780313221941
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"