By identifying Woodhead's choice use of language and criticism, any discerning reader will find the authors motive evident: to undermine the credibility of the Bible, early church and Christian dogma and replace it with her own interpretation. In short, Woodhead tries to crawl inside Christianity, skew its documentation of history and theology in an "objective" manner, and advocate some form of utopian universalism as the Christian message (a very noble message, and one which Christianity would line up with to a degree, but one which is far from the essence of orthodox Christianity). I would recommend a less biased book to anyone looking for an introduction to Christianity.