Announcing the publication of the first volume of the Christian History Millennial Project! This is a project to produce a series of volumes--at present, we expect a total of 19--covering the entire history of Christianity from the Resurrection to the present day. The research/editing/writing staff is Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox. The books are similar to Time-Life or National Geographic publications, with a large format and lots of illustrations. You can take a look at www.christianhistoryproject.com.
The deal is: sign up to receive the first volume, return it if you don't like it, if you do like it they'll send you a bill and further volumes as they come out, cancel at any time (you know the drill, you could probably recite this by heart). You can order at the website, or sign up by phone: 800-853-5402. It's a time when Christian history is under attack, when factoids and urban legends abound and most Christians are unable to respond because they know very little about their own history. This first volume begins at the Resurrection and goes through the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD. I got to write that last chapter, and its a wrenching story that I'll never forget. Other writers in this volume include CHarlotte Low Allen, Mark Galli, Calvin Demmon, Gary Thomas, Stephen Hopkins, and general editor Ted Byfield. I've already turned in my chapter for Volume 2; I wrote on the city of Alexandria in Egypt, from the time of St. Mark's arrival as a missionary through Clement and the early years of Origen. Fascinating stuff, to me. We ran into a little problem in that, in a book like this, all the chapters need to sound more or less alike; they need to have the same pacing and narrative feel. With so many different writers, Ted wound up receiving very different chapters and had to do a final version smoothing everything together. My chapter "sounds like me" in some places, and in other places it's been adapted to the overall style. This raised the question for all us writers about who gets assigned responsibility for the final product; we decided to not put our names on the chapters themselves, but to be credited for our work in the back of the book. Hope you take a look at it--hope you like it! best, F ******** Frederica Mathewes-Green www.frederica.com --> missing mail advisory <-- Occasionally, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] never arrives. If you don't get a reply in a few days, shake your fist helplessly at AOL and write again. Sorry.
