{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ill Literacy: Books with Benson","title":"Ill Literacy, Episode 141: Christendom (Guest: Peter Heather)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4086,"description":"Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Peter Heather, chair of medieval history at King's College, London, to discuss his new book, Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300. They chat about how a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations became a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, the Church’s chameleonlike capacity for self-reinvention, and how nothing was inevitable about Christianity’s rise and dominance in Europe. \nGet the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546307/christendom-by-peter-heather/\n\nShow Notes: \n\nCity Journal: Edward Short – “Fair Triumph, or Foul?”\nhttps://www.city-journal.org/article/fair-triumph-or-foul\n\nLiterary Review: Costica Bradatan – “Onward Christian Emperors”\nhttps://literaryreview.co.uk/onward-christian-emperors\n\nNew York Times: Paul Elie – “Looking at Early Christianity Through a Different Lens”\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/books/review/christendom-peter-heather.html\n\nPublic Discourse: Robert Wilken – “ The History behind the Formation of Christendom”\nhttps://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2023/07/89727/\n\nThe Spectator: Eleanor Myerson – “The rocky path to Christian dominance in Europe”\nhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rocky-path-to-christian-dominance-in-europe/\n\nThe Telegraph: Peter Stanford – “How 4th-century Christianity radically reinvented itself from a marginal sect to a world power”\nhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/how-4th-century-christianity-radically-reinvented-marginal-sect/\n\nTimes Literary Supplement: Diarmid MacCulloch – “Kingdom of God”\nhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-formation-of-christendom-judith-herrin-christendom-peter-heather-book-review-diarmaid-macculloch/\n\nWashington Examiner: Diane Scharper – “How Christianity Happened”\nhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-life-arts/376645/how-christianity-happened/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kNYd03PWLsrhW1fapjuL69XCID7ipQAh8UAmtQYE_W0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM2NzM4LzE2Njk4/MzU0NzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}