The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity

by Jack Miles (Editor), Lawrence S. Cunningham (Editor)

The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1,000 primary texts, accompanied by headnotes, annotations, glossaries, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection “will unsettle some current certainties about the nature of faith and, in so doing, may help its readers arrive at a nuanced and accurate perception of our predicament in this dangerously polarized world” (Karen Armstrong, New York Times).


Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. The volume features Jack Miles’s illuminating General Introduction—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as Lawrence S. Cunningham’s “The Words and the Word Made Flesh,” a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity.

Genres: Religion, Nonfiction, History, Christianity

752 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2015

About the author

Jack Miles is an American author and scholar known for influential works on religion, literature, and culture. His essays and commentary have appeared in major publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book God: A Biography, which presents the biblical God as a literary character and has been translated into numerous languages. Miles later expanded this approach with Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God and God in the Qur'an, part of a broader exploration of religious texts as narrative traditions. He has also served as general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religions and held editorial and academic positions across publishing and higher education.

Reviews

[Tamara]

This gave me a chance to become familiar with some of the famous writers/thinkers in Christian history. It was interesting to actually read some of their writings, after having read authors who quote or refer to them.