A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Pentecostalism, has centred its appeal on a particular form of communication with the divine, speaking in tongues, which was severely mistrusted by Paul of Tarsus and which (despite the understandable claims of Pentecostals to the contrary) has very little precedent in Christian practice between the first and the nineteenth centuries CE.

What drove me to Catholicism.

All the world faiths which have known long-term success have shown a remarkable capacity to mutate, and Christianity is no exception, which is why one underlying message of this history is its sheer variety.

True.

There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.