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Author : Paul R. Spickard,Kevin M. Cragg,Gordon William Carlson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801022494
Surveys the progression of the Christian experience within historical, social, economic, and cultural contexts.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141935478
A monumental new history of Christianity from its beginnings as a persecuted cult, up to its present day international diversity. 'A model of condensation without simplification' - J.M Coetzee 'Clear and balanced. A triumph of compression... invaluable as a work of reference for students' - Karen Armstrong, Times 'A new and ambitious concept in presenting Christian history...a triumph. Never before, I suspect, has this cavalcade of thinkers been presented in a manner which so successfully combines depth, breadth, and succinctness' - Gerard Noel, Catholic Herald
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300118841
Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.
Author : Martin Marty
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812976779
In this cogent volume, historian Martin Marty gives readers of all faiths a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it grew from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world’s largest religion. He depicts the life of Christ and his teachings and explains how the apostles set out to spread the Gospel. With a special emphasis on global Christianity, Marty shows how the religion emerged from its ancestral homeland in Africa, the Levant, and Asia Minor, was imported to Europe, and then expanded from there to the rest of the world. While giving a broad overview, Marty also focuses on specific issues, such as how Christianity attempts to reconcile with the teachings of Christ some of its stances on armed conflict, justice, and dominion. The Christian World is a remarkable testament to how Christ’s message has touched human experience everywhere.
Author : Frederick W. Norris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780744872
A detailed chronological guide, tracing the geographical and social development of Christian communities around the world, covering many key issues, including the Crusades and the fervent evangelism of missionary movements over the last five hundred years.
Author : Robert Bruce Mullin
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611645514
Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short World History of Christianity, by contrast, offers a panoramic picture of the history of Christianity in its Western and non-Western expressions. It tells the story of the early church in the Greek East as well as the Latin West; of Christianity's spread into Asia as well as Europe during the Middle Ages; and its explosion around the world during the modern period. Mullins's highly readable narrative explores why global perspectives have emerged so strongly in our understanding of the story of Christianity and how they have impacted Christianity's perspective on its place in the world. This newly revised edition adds information on such global phenomena as early Syriac-speaking Christianity; the growth of Pentecostalism around the world, especially in the southern hemisphere; and recent trends in Christianity, including the elevation of the first pope born in the Americas. A time line of key dates, call-out boxes, and other helpful study materials are also provided. Beginning students will appreciate this memorable introduction to the most important events in the history and development of Christianity.
Author : Edward L. Smither
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683592409
"Smither weaves together a ... history of Christian mission from the apostles to the modern church. In each era, he focuses on the people sent by God to the ends of the earth, while also describing the cultural context they encountered"--Back cover.
Author : David Nash
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191614354
Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glimpse of blasphemy's victims. In particular, he seeks to understand why this seemingly medieval offence has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West.
Author : David A. Fisher
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0890847126
Help students see historical events from Creation to modern times in the light of God's Word. The ministry of the church is emphasized, and politics, economics, and arts and sciences are discussed. The student text presents the hand of God in the affairs of man. Chapter overviews and recaps help identify the main themes. Colorful charts, maps, and illustrations heighten student interest. The Teacher's Edition (which includes usable student pages) develops grade-level-appropriate skills and includes additional information, activities, and special visual aids. - Publisher.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062517708
David Chidester, one of the world's foremost scholars of religion, traces Christianity's growth and development from the time of Jesus to the dawn of the third millennium, revealing its rich diversity through the deeds and beliefs of heretics and saints, witches and healers, preachers and inquisitors. Chidester explores the emergence of the major streams of Christian thought and practice, distilling the cultural history of the Church and its impact on the world into this superbly readable book. Alongside this broad panorama is a richly human story that the author brilliantly encapsulates in incisive character sketches and historical vignettes. Christianity, in all its many facets, has been and continues to be one of the most influential forces in history. Chidester shows that this religion, with its roots deep in the ancient world, has always been in a constant state of evolution, affecting and affected by the religions and societies around it. At times Christianity has coexisted peacefully with other forms of belief, exchanging ideas and practices with them. At other times profound, even violent, conflict has arisen. In this book David Chidester intelligently and objectively portrays Christians in different times and places, as a minority and as the majority group, a religion both absorbing and resisting the world around it. Christianity reveals the religion as it was and is lived in the life of everyday people rather than focusing on the dry dogmas and beliefs that fill most histories. Chidester's accomplishment is to capture the complexity and grand sweep of this story in one remarkable volume that is destined to take its place as a classic of religious history.
Author : Brian Stanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691196848
"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.
Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300125818
"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ted Byfield
Publisher : CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0968987389
The Christians is the history of Christianity, told chronologically, epoch by epoch, century by century, beginning at Pentecost and concluding with Christians as we find ourselves in the twenty-first century. It will consist of approximately twelve volumes, produced over a 10-year period at the beginning of the third Christian millennium. It is written and edited by Christians for Christians of all denominations. Its purpose is to tell the story of the Christian family, so that we may be knowledgeable of our origins, may well know and wisely profit from the experiences of our past both good and bad, and may find strength and inspiration to face the challenges of our era from the magnificent examples set for us by those who went before. - Back cover.
Author : Terry C. Muck,Frances S. Adeney
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441205261
The current religious climate poses unique challenges to those engaged in mission. Thus the authors of this book propose a new, yet very biblical, model for interacting with people of other faiths. They term this model giftive mission, as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. We bear the greatest gift possible--the gospel message. Adopting this perspective not only has the potential for greater missionary success but also enables us to more closely imitate God's gracious activity in the world. The core of the book explores eleven practices that characterize giftive mission. Each practice is illustrated through the story of a figure from mission history who embodied that practice. Further discussion shows how to incorporate these practices in specific mission settings.
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451688511
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.