Christianity A Brief Survey

Author : Michael D. Robinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532618321

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Christianity: A Brief Survey by Michael D. Robinson Pdf

Christianity is a way of life centered on the person, life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. As a religious way of life, Christianity is multifaceted, involving numerous beliefs and practices. This book explores many of the varied facets of the Christian faith, including its foundations in the story of Israel, the person of Jesus, the early Christian community, and the sacred text called the Bible. In turn, Robinson’s book examines Christianity’s core doctrines, ethical norms, and worship practices, rounding out the study by considering four key contemporary challenges faced by Christian believers—namely, the problem of evil, the relationship of Christianity to other religions and to science, and the role of women in church and society. Among the strengths of this book is that it addresses these multiple features of Christianity in a single volume: it is aptly titled Christianity: A Brief Survey.

Author : Mark Nickens
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781535985000

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A Survey of the History of Global Christianity, Second Edition by Mark Nickens Pdf

Since Jesus’s resurrection, Christianity has expanded across the globe and shaped a vast array of groups and movements. A Survey of the History of Global Christianity, Second Edition, provides an overview of the Christian faith from the apostolic age to the global present. In a friendly and informative tone, author Mark Nickens outlines the historical context of important developments in doctrine and practice, including: o the persecution and resilience of the early church o the results of increasing papal power in Europe during the Middle Ages o the Reformation and later movements that influenced European Christianity o the various sects of American Christianity that arose in cycles of revival o an examination of Orthodoxy and the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the West Indies. In addition to historical information, this book features quotes and spiritual lessons from noteworthy Christians throughout the centuries. By understanding how Christian doctrine has developed over the ages and across the globe, readers will better understand where their own faith tradition comes from.

Author : Michael D. Robinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532618314

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Christianity: A Brief History by Michael D. Robinson Pdf

Christianity is one of the world’s great religions, with more than two thousand years of history and over two billion adherents worldwide. But what is Christianity? Where did it come from? How did it develop to its current forms? What doctrines do Christians affirm? What ethical norms do they endorse? What relationships between church and state do they champion, and why? What changes have transpired for the faith over the centuries? And what new challenges does Christianity face in the contemporary world? These and other questions are addressed in Michael Robinson’s Christianity: A Brief History. After a concise description of the social, political, and religious world of first-century Palestine, the text quickly examines the Jesus of history and tradition, including Jesus’ impact upon his first-century followers; the narrative then moves to describe the expansions and developments of Christianity through the ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary eras. Along the way, readers learn of the varied beliefs, mores, rituals, struggles, and triumphs of the faith, as well as of the spiritual heights and moral blunders of its people. Robinson’s intention is to introduce Christianity through its story and through those who lived it.

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281076208

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A Short History of Christianity by Geoffrey Blainey Pdf

Christianity has played a central role in world history, for better or worse, but beyond the life of Jesus many people know little of this story. Geoffrey Blainey takes the reader on a journey from the very beginnings of Christianity through to the present day. Looking at the development of the religion itself, as well as the social and economic forces that have influenced it, the book focuses on the stories of the key players in Christianity’s rise and fall through the ages, as well as how these players shaped the faith of believers.

Author : Thomas Gisborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590418468

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A familiar survey of the Christian religion, and of history as connected with the introduction of Christianity, and with its progress to the present time by Thomas Gisborne Pdf

Author : John Denham Parsons
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4064066384814

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Our Sun God - The History of Christianity Before Christ by John Denham Parsons Pdf

"Our Sun God - The History of Christianity Before Christ" traces down the origins of the Judeo-Christian monotheism and the idea of one God. The author presents numerous similarities between the sole Judeo-Christian God and various forms of sun gods. From a Broad Church Point of View Pauline Christianity From a Gnostic Point of View Christianity in Existence Before Christ The Beginning The Hebrew Scriptures The Sun-god Iaou (Jehovah) Non-Jewish Evidence Concerning Iaou The Origin and Date of Genesis The Sun-god of the New Testament Sun-god Worship in the Days of the Fathers The Sun-god of Philosophy

Author : James BROMLEY (Wesleyan Minister.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021641784

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A Brief Account of the External Evidences of Christianity; being the substance of a sermon, etc by James BROMLEY (Wesleyan Minister.) Pdf

Author : Durant Drake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Christianity
ISBN : LCCN:16018757

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Problems of Religion by Durant Drake Pdf

Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000202863

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A Short History of Christianity by Martin E. Marty Pdf

Author : Paul F. Knitter
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608332021

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No Other Name? by Paul F. Knitter Pdf

Author : Helmut Koester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110814064

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History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age by Helmut Koester Pdf

While the first American edition of this book, published more than a decade ago, was a revised translation of the German book, Einführung in das Neue Testament, this second edition of the first volume of the Introduction to the New Testament is no longer dependent upon a previously published German work. The author hopes that for the student of the New Testament it is a useful introduction into the many complex aspects of the political, cultural, and religious developments that characterized the world in which early Christianity arose and by which the New Testament and other early Christian writings were shaped.

Author : Bryn Mawr College
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068227894

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Program by Bryn Mawr College Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Subject catalogs
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000080985

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Catalogue of the Library of Congress by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Paul R. Spickard,Kevin M. Cragg,Gordon William Carlson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801022494

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A Global History of Christians by Paul R. Spickard,Kevin M. Cragg,Gordon William Carlson Pdf

Surveys the progression of the Christian experience within historical, social, economic, and cultural contexts.

Author : Leonard S. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556358302

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Religion and the Rise of History by Leonard S. Smith Pdf

As a historical inquiry and synthesis, this intellectual history is the first study to apply the ideal-type or model-building methodology of Otto Hintze (1861-1940) to Western historical thought or to what R. G. Collingwood called The Idea of History, for it contains succinct and useful models for seeing and teaching classical, Christian, and modern professional historiography. Religion and the Rise of History is also the first work to suggest that, in addition to his well-known paradoxical, simul, and/or at-the-same-time way of thinking and viewing life, Martin Luther also held to a way that was deeply incarnational, dynamic, and/or in-with-and-under. This dual vision and a Lutheran ethos strongly influenced Leibniz, Hamann, and Herder, and was therefore a matter of considerable significance for the rise of a distinctly modern form of historical consciousness (commonly called historicism) in Protestant Germany. Smith's essay suggests a new time period for the formative age of modern German thought, culture, and education: The Cultural Revolution in Germany. This age began in the early 1760s and culminated in 1810 with the founding of the University of Berlin, the first fully modern and modernizing university. This university first became the recognized center for the study of history, however, through the work of Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). Here the story shows how a young Ranke derived his individualizing way of thinking and viewing life mainly from Luther, how his life-work is the best example in Western literature of the rise of history from a calling to a profession, and how the three-way discussion between Troeltsch, Meinecke, and Hintze concerning the nature of modern historical thought was of central importance for the reorientation of Western social-historical thought in the twentieth century.