Tales to be read with caution
This review gives an overview of both the author’s book and his six-part BBC TV series. Obviously, the latter is greatly condensed from the former — as one can see from the number of pages, it is a veritable tome! MacCulloch describes himself as a ‘gay man’ who is ‘a candid friend of Christianity’, rather than a believer.
Anthony McRoy
A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
The First Three Thousand Years
By Diarmaid MacCulloch
Allen Lane. 1,161 pages. £35.00
ISBN 978-0-71399-869-6
(Also a BBC TV series on DVD)