Let’s start at the very beginning

A panoramic history opening in the sixth century digs back to the roots of Christianity.

St Paul writing, from an early ninth-century manuscript version of St Paul’s letters, ascribed to the Monastery of St Gallen under the scribe Wolfcoz.
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/WÜRTTEMBERGISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK STUTTGART.

Let’s start at the very beginning A panoramic history opening in the sixth century digs back to the roots of Christianity TERESA MORGAN Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings MARKUS VINZENT (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 350 PP, £30) TABLET BOOKSHOP PRICE £27 • TEL 020 7799 4064

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