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• The thousand years between King David and Jesus Christ are so important to Christianity, MacCulloch labels them “the first millennium of Christian history,” for these years established the notions of God’s chosen one, the Temple in Jerusalem, Yahweh as one supreme God, and “the foreordained salvation of the Jewish people” (56). Where To Download A History Of Christianity The First Three Thousand Years Diarmaid Macculloch Where To Download A History Of Christianity The First Three Thousand. by Richard Carrier on Febru 17 Comments. This is part two of my series on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s book and BBC series A History of Christianity, or as the book is sometimes titled, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, referring to the fact that Christianity evolved out of trends that began a thousand years before it arose.
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