Christianity

Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1522 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141021898

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A History of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch Pdf

Christianity, one of the world’s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.

Author : Ben Shaw
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784986353

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Seven Reasons to (Re)Consider Christianity by Ben Shaw Pdf

Examine the evidence for Christianity and why it is worth considering. Lots of people assume that Christianity is simply a nice story for kids or a niche hobby for weirdos—or worse, unattractively restrictive. In this book, Ben Shaw invites sceptical readers to think again. He outlines seven reasons why Christianity is worth considering—or reconsidering—not least because it offers some thought-provoking and rational answers to our deepest questions. This warm, honest book shows that the Christian message is both more credible and more wonderful than we might have otherwise thought, and calls readers to investigate the person of Jesus for themselves.

Author : Tanner Hnidey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798553946708

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True Christianity by Tanner Hnidey Pdf

Presently, chaos dominates the world. People are hopeless and scared. In desperation, individuals look to politicians, intellectuals, and ideologies to save them from the fear of death. But, as reality proves, none of these things provide salvation. Therefore, Tanner was compelled to write about the one Saviour, one hope, and one path to everlasting life, Jesus Christ. Christ alone is the sacrifice for sin, he alone frees a person from death, and he alone is the eternal salvation for humanity. As such, this book is about Christ, and Christ alone, in the hope that you too, dear Reader, might receive freedom from death and become a True Christian.

Author : Anthony Grafton,Megan Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674037861

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Christianity and the Transformation of the Book by Anthony Grafton,Megan Williams Pdf

When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today.,

Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300074999

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Material Christianity by Colleen McDannell Pdf

What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.

Author : Dirk Rohmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110485554

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Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity by Dirk Rohmann Pdf

It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.

Author : Rebecca McLaughlin
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433564260

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Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin Pdf

Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues to be the world's most popular worldview. But even so, the Christian faith includes many controversial beliefs that non-Christians find hard to accept. This book explores 12 issues that might cause someone to dismiss orthodox Christianity—issues such as the existence of suffering, the Bible's teaching on gender and sexuality, the reality of heaven and hell, the authority of the Bible, and more. Showing how the best research from sociology, science, and psychology doesn't disagree with but actually aligns with claims found in the Bible, these chapters help skeptics understand why these issues are signposts, rather than roadblocks, to faith in Christ.

Author : Philip Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857737885

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Christianity by Philip Kennedy Pdf

The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now take its existence almost for granted. Yet it might all have been so different. Christianity began with the words and deeds of an obscure village carpenter's son who died a shameful criminal's death at the hands of the Roman occupiers of his country: itself an insignificant outpost of the powerful ruling Empire. The feverish land of biblical Palestine, awash with apocalyptic expectations of deliverance from its foreign overlords, was hardly short of seers and prophets who claimed to be sent visions from God. Yet the followers of this man thought he was different: so different, in fact, that some years after his death and asserted resurrection they scandalously insisted not only that he was sent by God, but that he 'was' God. How a provincial sect, with its seemingly outrageous ideas, became first the sanctioned religion of the Roman Empire and then, over the course of 2000 years, the creed of billions of people, is the improbable story that this book tells. It is a story of freethinkers, friars, fanatics and firebrands; and of the lay people (not just the clerical or the powerful) who have made up the great mass of Christians over the centuries. Many introductions to Christianity are written by Christians, for Christians. This elegant textbook, by contrast, shows that the history of the religion, while often glorious, is not one of unimpeded progress, but something still more remarkable, flawed and human.

Author : Dr. Alex Locay
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664242487

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How Christianity Built Western Civilization by Dr. Alex Locay Pdf

Today, the voices from the secular left are hard at work removing any trace of religion from government and the law. Meanwhile, secular historians have successfully limited Christianity’s contribution in history to the Crusades and Inquisitions; as if that is all Christians have to speak for. The real story is quite different, primarily that everything good in Western Civilization has its roots in the Christian religion. How Christianity Built Western Civilization is the epic tale of how our Christian forefathers stood up to history’s darkest forces, to forge a new way of life, grounded in the biblical worldview. Over the centuries it has become evident that Western Civilization has emerged as mankind’s greatest achievement. It is here where the greatest political and economic systems were born, and here that we see the concept of human rights emerge, along with the modern scientific process and the greatest discoveries. It is in the West that we find the most advanced educational institutions, along with the greatest charities, artistic masterpieces and architectural innovations. Is this a coincidence, or the deliberate result of our worldview? How Christianity Built Western Civilization answers this question with chapters on human rights, modern science, universal education, charity, art and architecture; focusing entirely on the revolutionary milestones and individuals that made these achievements possible. Each chapter unfolds chronologically, starting with the biblical foundation and moving through the work of the early and Medieval Church, arriving at modern times. The author builds a compelling case demonstrating how Western Civilization would be indistinguishable from India, China or Africa today, if not for the teachings of Christ and the Bible.

Author : Timothy Tseng,Viji Nakka-Cammauf
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : 9780981987811

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Asian American Christianity Reader by Timothy Tseng,Viji Nakka-Cammauf Pdf

This textbook is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly and religious articles about Asian American Christianity. Its four sections -- contexts, sites, identity, and voices ? offer in-depth understanding of both Catholic and Protestant traditions, practices, theologies, and faith communities. It also highlights diversity and complexity across lines of gender, generation, denomination, race and ethnicity in Asian American Christianity.

Author : Runar Thorsteinsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199578641

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Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism by Runar Thorsteinsson Pdf

Runar M. Thorsteinsson presents a challenge to the view that Christianity introduced an entirely new, better, and decidedly universal morality into the ancient world. Presenting evidence from Stoic and Christian texts from first century Rome, he emphasizes the similarities between the two belief systems.

Author : Jimmie Compton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780940123021

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Surveying Christianity's African Roots (Paperback) by Jimmie Compton Pdf

"... pre-Constantinian Christian intellect apparently found a richer thought environment in Africa than elsewhere. It discovered itself in the intellectual centers of Africa before Europe had produced such centers. Eventually it offered its rich wisdom to the cultures of the northern side of the Mediterranean ..." - Dr. Thomas C. Oden. This book surveys the rational, organized, thriving, Scripturally informed and Holy Spirit-inspired roots of indigenous Christianity in Africa from 33 A.D. through 537 A.D. The intent is to supplement existing Church history resources.

Author : Bob George
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736939485

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Classic Christianity by Bob George Pdf

The breakthrough book that has helped over half a million Christians worldwide since 1989! Classic Christianity—Bob George’s eye-opening distillation of the life-transforming truths of the gospel—now has a fresh cover and interior that reflect the up-to-the-minute relevance of its message. Like so many Christians, Bob George started out in love with Jesus, only to end up feeling disappointed and empty. Drawing on his struggles and his teaching and counseling experience, Bob cuts to the heart of believers’ common questions... Doesn’t God expect me to clean up my act before I approach Him? I know God loves me—but does He accept me? I’m saved and forgiven... do I just wait for heaven now? In Classic Christianity, believers will see the way back to the life Jesus provided—a life set free from the law’s bondage, lived in the newness of the Spirit, and secure in the Father’s affection. Find out more at www.classicchristianity.com.

Author : Chang Seop Kang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666703528

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Conversion of Chinese Students in Korea to Evangelical Christianity by Chang Seop Kang Pdf

Currently, about 6 percent of the eighty thousand Chinese college students in Korea are Christians, certainly no small number considering their future role within the Chinese Church. In this study, Chang Seop Kang seeks to find out the factors, process, and types concerning the conversion of thirty Chinese international students. This qualitative study gives a rich picture of their conversion stories, providing many examples from their insider perspectives. The key finding connecting these stories is experiencing God. Overall, this book showcases how an inductive data analysis such as grounded theory can produce a powerful message that affirms biblical truth.

Author : Charles Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QZT

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The Social Results of Early Christianity by Charles Schmidt Pdf