At times he calls for a thoroughgoing scepticism, even relativism, attacking the Christianity of Pascal (unconvincingly) and Francis of Assisi (amusingly).
Monsignor FRANK MANISCALCO (Head of Communications, U.S. Conference of Bishops): We can see in The Da Vinci Code much that simply misinterprets the origins of Christianity and takes, say, for example, second and third century writings by people who are not really in synch with the Christianity, the New Testament, and puts them on the same level as the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Billy Graham's autobiography is a reminder that evangelical Protestantism is a far older and deeper current in American life that the politicised Christianity of the Moral Majority.
This month community cohesion minister Parmjit Dhanda said the UK should "celebrate" the role of Christianity in the country's heritage and culture.
Now the spokesmen of Christianity join the queues of those demanding that their advertised moral sentiments be indulged at the expense of others.
The advance of Christianity in the West brought with it many blessings: an ethos of compassion for children, the poor, the sick and the outcast.
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He added that research commissioned by his foundation meant that the outlook for Christianity in the UK was "even more pessimistic" than the census data suggested.
For several decades the boundaries between Christianity - as the mainstream, or default - religion in England and Wales, and "no religion" have been blurring.
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It's named for when, in the year 1000, the lawspeaker of Iceland made Christianity the official religion of Iceland and threw the carvings of the old Norse gods into the falls.
Since I was inaugurated as the Presiding Minister of this esteemed church, God has being helping us to keep hope and monuments alive and we have also being able to change the face of Christianity, and the church having a whole lot of history attached.
Paul Ozin, for the GMC, said Dr Scott told the patient Christianity might help him overcome personal problems.
Issuing his decree, he said that since the early days of Christianity, the Church had made Latin "her own language", and that it was still held in high regard.
He wrote his degree thesis on the history of Christianity and is best known as the minister who, in the most recent centre-left government, sponsored a programme of economic liberalisation.
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Mr Duncan brilliantly evokes the more philosophical tensions within Christianity about the nature of time.
There is genuine fear that the holiest sites of Christianity, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, will become mere museums.
John Paul's pilgrimage retraces the steps of St Paul, the Jew who converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus and later preached in Athens and Malta on his way to Rome.
The cardinal, who is known for his robust defence of traditionalist Christian teaching, said the enemies of Christianity want to "take God from the public sphere".
In other words, its use construes all three in the way Islam does - as dead prophets - a treatment wholly at odds with the teachings of Christianity which, of course, holds Jesus as the immortal Son of God.
The major newspapers have recently carried election primers on the role of Mormonism and evangelical Christianity in the election.
Born in 1918, Mr Graham grew up in one of the heartlands of bible-thumping Christianity, the farmlands outside Charlotte in then-impoverished North Carolina.
Even though the word "crucifixion" is used to describe the public display, the act has no connection to Christianity and the crucifixion of Jesus.
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In other words, she is seeking a straightforward secular explanation for the historical phenomenon that Christianity itself ascribes to the work of the Holy Spirit.
Even today, on the fringes of Christianity and in popular journalism, there are people who claim to have found the Garden of Eden.
The remoteness of southern Egypt helped topreserve Christianity after the Muslim conquest of Egypt 1, 400 years ago.
There's another connection here, too: It's been widely reported that T-Bone Burnett was one of the people who escorted Dylan into evangelical Christianity in the late 1970s.
That has to do with the way the Caribbean was missionised: the hotter brand of Christianity gained most converts among the dispossessed, who then re-exported it to Britain.
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Bishop Welby will need to use the media to tackle public scepticism about Christianity from the basics upwards, something that Dr Williams touched on in a speech a few days ago.
Disputes over the extent to which Christianity should be part of the school day have roused strong feelings in some states - with prolonged rows over the displaying of the Ten Commandments, the teaching of the Creation story and the public saying of prayers before sports events.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
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