/lit/ - Literature

>>11520163
Don't let the title fool you. I actually ended up reading after seeing a review complain that Francis is only mentioned in the opening and closing chapter.
The majority of the book is about followers of Christ starting as a cult of desperate martyrs, to the Nicene Council, why Latin was used for mass and scripture despite the Bible being written in Greek and Aramaic, the reformation, and so on.
Its not very in-depth, but it is a good overview.

The author is a devout Catholic, and written a bunch of other books about Catholicism, some historic some theology. Including his own translation and commentary on Augustine's Confessions.
He won a Pulitzer for a book about Lincoln's Gettysburg address for what its worth.