One of the most amazing and significant facts of history is that within 5 centuries of its birth, Christianity won the professed allegiance of the overwhelming majority of the Roman Empire and even the support of the Roman state. Beginning as a seemingly obscure sect of Judaism, one of the scores, even hundreds of religions and religious groups which were competing within the realm, revering as its central figure one who had been put to death by the machinery of Rome.

Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884–1968), Kirchenhistoriker

Topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884–1968) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Kirchenhistoriker und Missionswissenschaftler, der über mehrere Jahrzehnte an der Yale University lehrte. Er gilt als Pionier einer globalen Kirchengeschichtsschreibung, die das Christentum jenseits rein eurozentrischer Perspektiven darstellte, stand jedoch wegen seines geschichtsphilosophischen Optimismus und einer teils oberflächlichen Theologie auch in der Fachkritik. Heutigen Bibellesern eröffnet sein historiografisches Werk einen fundierten Überblick über die weltweite Ausbreitungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte des christlichen Glaubens.

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