*Starred Review* The fifth-century Christian church faced a doctrinal issue, now largely forgotten, that precipitated intramural Christian savagery unparalleled until the 11-centuries-later Thirty Years' War. The bone of contention was the nature of Jesus Christ. That he wasn't a mere man was indisputable. But was he a human-divine cross-breed, so to speak, or was he purely divine and his human body an illusion?
Jenkins tells the fascinating, violent story of the Church's fifth century battles over right belief that had a far greater impact on the future of Christianity and the world than the much-touted Council of Nicea convened a century before.
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