The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

by Philip Jenkins

Some even ask whether this new global or world Christianity will remain fully authentic, as European norms seem to represent a kind of gold standard.4 But such questions are ironic when we realize how unnatural the Euro-American emphasis is when seen against the broader background of Christian history.

Our accepted chronology of the ancient church is wrong: ancient Semitic Christianity dies out not in the fourth century, but in the fourteenth.8

Otherwise, Arab Christians complain that their existence has been largely forgotten in the West, especially by those evangelicals who pledge uncritical support for “Christian Zionism.