How long does it take to read Christianity?
the first three thousand years
Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch takes about 21 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 21 hours 33 minutes
A long haul
First published 2010. 1,175 pages, about 323,125 words.
44 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 35 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 21 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
We live in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition. This ambitious book ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith, to teach modern readers how Jesus' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. We meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in driving the Enlightenment and the Age of Exploration, and shaping the course of World Wars I and II.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Church history, Christianity, Origin, Kristendom, Christentum, Historia
