What Is Christianity?: An Introduction to the Christian Religion

Gail Ramshaw

oct 2013 · Fortress Press

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Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity around the basic questions that students ask. Investigating Christianity as a lived experience, she opens each chapter with a voice from the field of religious studies and then presents answers to each chapters question by surveying the history, doctrine, practices, and convictions of Christian churches.

Written for undergraduates with little or no background in the breadth of Christianity, the text of the book reports on the diversity of Christian belief and practice, and is accompanied with student-friendly learning helps, including side-bar definitions, art, photos, study questions, essay topics, and suggestions for further exploration in short stories, novels and films.

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Gail Ramshaw, M.A., M.Div., Ph.D., D.D., a retired professor of religion, has published extensively in the field of liturgical language. Her most recent publications are Word of God, Word of Life: Understanding the Three-Year Lectionaries (2019), a collection of liturgical prayers titled Pray, Praise, and Give Thanks (2017), and a collection of personal prayers titled Blessing and Beseeching (2022). In 2010 she received the Berakah award from the North American Academy of Liturgy. In 2019 she was honored by Virginia Theological Seminary with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 2020 received a Doctor of Divinity from Wartburg Theological Seminary.