Christendom Destroyed

Author : Mark Greengrass
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241005965

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Christendom Destroyed by Mark Greengrass Pdf

Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change This latest addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it. From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era. Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion. The subsequent divisions, fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes, fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Geographical and scientific discoveries challenged the unity of Christendom as a belief-community. Europe, with all its divisions, emerged instead as a geographical projection. It was reflected in the mirror of America, and refracted by the eclipse of Crusade in ambiguous relationships with the Ottomans and Orthodox Christianity. Chronicling these dramatic changes, Thomas More, Shakespeare, Montaigne and Cervantes created works which continue to resonate with us. Christendom Destroyed is a rich tapestry that fosters a deeper understanding of Europe's identity today.

Author : Steven M. Studebaker,Lee Beach,Gordon L. Heath
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666788839

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Post-Christendom Studies: Volume 7 by Steven M. Studebaker,Lee Beach,Gordon L. Heath Pdf

Post-Christendom Studies publishes research on the nature of Christian identity and mission in the contexts of post-Christendom. Post-Christendom refers to places, both now and in the past, where Christianity was once a significant cultural presence, though not necessarily the dominant religion. Sometimes “Christendom” refers to the official link between church and state. The term “post-Christendom” is often associated with the rise of secularization, religious pluralism, and multiculturalism in western countries over the past sixty years. Our use of the term is broader than that however. Egypt for example can be considered a post-Christendom context. It was once a leading center of Christianity. “Christendom” moreover does not necessarily mean official public and dominant religion. For example, under Saddam Hussein, Christianity was probably a minority religion, but, for the most part, Christians were left alone. After America deposed Saddam, Christians began to flee because they became a persecuted minority. In that sense, post-Saddam Iraq is an experience of post-Christendom—it is a shift from a cultural context in which Christians have more or less freedom to exercise their faith to one where they are persecuted and/or marginalized for doing so.

Author : Robert Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Christadelphians
ISBN : UVA:X004385100

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Christendom Astray by Robert Roberts Pdf

Author : Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608995509

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Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age by Matthew D. Kirkpatrick Pdf

Though Soren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer both made considerable contributions to twentieth-century thought, they are rarely considered together. Against Kierkegaard's melancholic individual, Bonhoeffer stands as the champion of the church and community. In Attacks on Christendom, Matthew D. Kirkpatrick challenges these stereotypical readings of these two vital thinkers. Through an analysis of such concepts as epistemology, ethics, Christology, and ecclesiology, Kirkpatrick reveals Kierkegaard's significant influence on Bonhoeffer throughout his work. Kirkpatrick shows that Kierkegaard underlies not only Bonhoeffer's spirituality but also his concepts of knowledge, being, and community. So important is this relationship that it was through Kierkegaard's powerful representation of Abraham and Isaac that Bonhoeffer came to adhere to an ethic that led to his involvement in the assassination attempts against Hitler. However, this relationship is by no means one-sided. Attacks on Christendom argues for the importance of Bonhoeffer as an interpreter of Kierkegaard, drawing Kierkegaard's thought into his own unique context, forcing Kierkegaard to answer very different questions. Bonhoeffer helps in converting the obscure, obdurate Dane into a thinker for his own, unique age. Both Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer have been criticized and misunderstood for their final works that lay bare the religious climates of their nations. In the final analysis, Attacks on Christendom argues that these works are not unfortunate endings to their careers, but rather their fulfilment, drawing together the themes that had been brewing throughout their work.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514159

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The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.

Author : Cy Farris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781524513948

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The Coming Seismic Eruption of Christendom by Cy Farris Pdf

After World War II and my service in the Merchant Marines, at twenty-one years old, I went fishing with my cousin. The boat sank, and my cousin drowned. I felt I too was going to die, but when I made it to land, I said, Thank you, God, whoever you are. After this experience, I studied many available sources and learned that the earth will be here forever as the home of mankind, that the soul is you, that hell is not a place of eternal torment, and Jesus is the Son of God. By continued research, I now feel I know more about the true God and his Son and feel less confused.

Author : Steven M. Studebaker,Gordon L. Heath
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725287075

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The Reformation by Steven M. Studebaker,Gordon L. Heath Pdf

Martin Luther’s nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg was a pivotal moment in the birth of what would become known as the Reformation. More than five hundred years later, historians and theologians continue to discuss the impact of these events and their ongoing relevance for the church today. The collection of essays contained in this volume not only engages the history and theology of this sixteenth-century movement, but also focuses on how the message and praxis of the Protestant reformers can be translated into a post-Christendom West. With contributions from: Victor A. Shepherd James Keller Gwenfair Walters Adams W. David Buschart David Fitch Wendy J. Porter Jennifer Powell McNutt

Author : Alfred H. Louis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Eastern question
ISBN : SRLF:A0007051956

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The Conference and the Crisis by Alfred H. Louis Pdf

Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691220772

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The Formation of Christendom by Judith Herrin Pdf

A groundbreaking history of how the Christian “West” emerged from the ancient Mediterranean world In this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how—from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800—the Christian “West” grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that religion was the period’s defining force, she reveals how the clash over graven images, banned by Islam, both provoked iconoclasm in Constantinople and generated a distinct western commitment to Christian pictorial narrative. In a new preface, Herrin discusses the book’s origins, reception, and influence.

Author : Paul Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192533869

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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 by Paul Stock Pdf

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.

Author : Charles Stanley
Publisher : Irving Risch
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Major Works of Charles Stanley Volume One by Charles Stanley Pdf

Railway Tracts 1 The Son of God 2 The Handcuffs 3 “Smashed to Pieces” 4 The Lost Ticket 5 “Just in Time” 6 “Conversation” 7 “What a Contrast” 8 “Progress” 9 “An Interesting Question” 10 “The Explosion” 11 “I have my Ticket” 12 “Over Luggage” 13 How does a man become a Soldier? 14 The Sad, Sad Face! 15 “Must I not strive?” 16 The Lunatic and his keeper “Plain Words” 1 The Little Garden 2 Lesson from an Old Schoolmaster 3 “Conversion” 4 The Telescope 5 Redemption 6 “Life” 7 “The Justifier 8 Worship 9 The Burial of the Ethiopian 10 “The Risen Christ” 11 “The Live Bird loose” 12 The Great Supper 13 How did the Jew know his Sin was Forgiven? 14 Naaman, the Leper 15 “As it was in the days of Noah” 16 “As it was in the days of Lot” “Bread Cast Upon The Waters” 1 “Your Dying Hour” 2 “Be thou Clean” 3 “Have I repented enough? 4 “Thy Sins be Forgiven thee” 5 Two Things which God hath Joined Together 6 “Why are ye Troubled?” 7 How are you to be Saved? 8 Who is to Blame? 9 If thou knewest the Gift of God? 10 “Repentance unto Life” 11 What is Good News to a man who feels himself Lost? 12 What is Grace? 13 “Hath” and “Are” 14 “The Righteousness of God” 15 How can a Sinner be Justified? 16 How does the Believer know that he is Justified? Mephibosheth; Lame on both Feet. Ruth; or, Blessing and Rest. Job's Conversion; or, God the Justifier. Coming of the Lord, &c. With Diagram.

Author : Catherine Nixey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544800939

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The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

Author : Thomas Kaufmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192577986

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The Saved and the Damned by Thomas Kaufmann Pdf

Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political and social causes that lay at the root of this revolution. Thomas Kaufmann, one of the world's leading experts on the Reformation, sees the most important drivers for what happened in religion itself. The reformers were principally concerned with the question of salvation. It could all have ended with the pope's condemnation of Luther and his teaching. But Luther believed the pope was condemned to eternal damnation, and this was the root cause of the great split to come. Hatred of the damned drove people to take up arms, while countless numbers left their homes far behind and carried the Reformation message to the furthest corners of the earth in the hope of salvation. In The Saved and the Damned, Thomas Kaufmann presents a dramatic overview of how Europe was transformed by the seismic shock of the Reformation—and of how its aftershocks reverberate right down to the present day.

Author : Jonathan Luxmoore,Jolanta Babiuch
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0852446470

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Rethinking Christendom by Jonathan Luxmoore,Jolanta Babiuch Pdf

"The failure of the European Union's Constitutional Treaty has raised serious questions about the Continent's future. Christian churches are active in this debate, as social and cultural forces with influence and outreach. But questions are also being asked about the future of Christianity itself, in a region now deeply divided between competing outlooks and visions. Why has Christianity caused such passion? And what does the controversy say about the new Europe now being created - a secular, technocratic Europe, or a Europe more deeply united by shared norms and values?" "Rethinking Christendom explores the background to today's discussions, drawing on views and perspectives from East and West. It shows how Christianity became the essential badge of European-ness, and the universal reference point for societies drawn together by external threats and internal aspirations. It also demonstrates how, by asserting the individual's moral value, Christianity planted the seeds of democracy and human rights, pluralism and equality, and was fated, over time, to subvert and undermine unjust, dictatorial systems of rule." "While some Europeans see Christianity as a means of liberation, others view it as a barmier to freedom. This book is a plea for a realistic and informed understanding of Christianity's past, present and future role - in a region where all faiths, worldviews and philosophies can and should coexist in a mutual creative harmony."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Annie Besant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317579052

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The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals) by Annie Besant Pdf

Annie Besant is primarily remembered as the international president of the Theosophical Society. One of the most important aspects of her career were the years that she was a professional atheist, which has given her a place in history as a pioneer feminist. The Origins of Theosophy contains thirteen of Besant’s pamphlets, originally published from 1883-1890. This book is ideal for students of theology.