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Author : Geoffrey Edwards,David L. Edwards
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780304704699
"David Edwards provides a sensitive critique which is helpful to those with no specialist knowledge and satisfying to the theologically educated." --Church Growth Digest>
Author : David Lawrence Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015040151378
Wide-ranging and authoritative, this book explores Christianity as it has taken root in societies across five continents.
Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141021898
From a prize-winning author, this book charts the course of Christianity from ancient history onwards.
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300164107
"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Author : Udo Schnelle
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493422425
Beginning as a marginal group in Galilee, the movement initiated by Jesus of Nazareth became a world religion within 100 years. Why, among various religious movements, did Christianity succeed? This major work by internationally renowned scholar Udo Schnelle traces the historical, cultural, and theological influences and developments of the early years of the Christian movement. It shows how Christianity provided an intellectual framework, a literature, and socialization among converts that led to its enduring influence. Senior New Testament scholar James Thompson offers a clear, fluent English translation of the successful German edition.
Author : Eddie L. Hyatt
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884198727
Overwhelming evidence reveals contemporary Christianity roots in Pentecost! The world is taking notice and realizing that the fastest-growing segment in Christianity has an undeniable history with a pattern and a rich, deep foundation dating back to the New Testament. Explore overwhelming evidence that reveals how the gifts of the Holy Spirit not only have existed in the centuries since the early apostles, but have also survived the Middle Ages, the politicized church of Europe, and have experienced a spectacular revival this century. Learn invaluable lessons from the experiences of courageous men and women who sought God and saw His power in their generation. The reader of this volume will gain a greater appreciation for the work of the Holy Spirit in history and will experience a sharpened sense to discern what God is doing in the church today. 2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity offers convincing evidence that the modern Pentecostal and Charismatic movements are rooted in the two-thousand-year history of the church. Those who identify with these movements will be affirmed in the experience of the Holy Spirit and will gain a new respect and appreciation for the movement of which they are a part. Those outside the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements will also benefit by reading this volume in that they will gain an understanding of this movement that Harvard professor Dr. Harvey Cox says is "reshaping religion in the 21st century."
Author : Ted Byfield
Publisher : CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Church 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 : Richard Harries,Henry Mayr-Harting
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199244855
Written by a team of top experts on the history of Christianity, this lucid and often witty book celebrates the highlights of two millennia of religious thought and practice. Each author describes Christianity's most fascinating contributions to the history of western civilization. Theresulting book is one of different approaches to the different periods, from the early Church right up to the twentieth century. The authors chose their highlights with care. The selection provides a framework of development giving new insights into what it means to be a twenty-first century Christian. Readers can enjoy any of these essays in its own right; individually each chapter shows the changes of development in thehistory of ideas: the very changes of atmosphere. This book gains its full effect, therefore, by being read in the round. As a finale, the Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, concludes with a thought for the future: How should Christianity proceed into the new millennium?
Author : Mark Chapman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192806932
This short introduction provides an understanding of the diversity of Anglicanism by exploring its history, theology, and structure. It also reveals what it is that holds the Anglican Communion together despite the crises that threaten it.
Author : Adrian Hastings
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802848753
This superb volume provides the first genuinely global one-volume history of the rise and development of the Christian faith. An international team of specialists takes seriously the geographical diversity of the Christian story, discussing the impact of Christianity not only in the West but also in Latin America, Africa, India, the Orient and Australasia.
Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781849169028
In The Story of Christianity, acclaimed theologian David Bentley Hart provides a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond for over 2,000 years. From the persecutions of the early church to the papal-imperial conflicts of the Middle Ages, from the religious wars of 16th- and 17th-century Europe to the challenges of science and secularism in the modern era, and from the ancient Christian communities of Africa and Asia to the 'house churches' of contemporary China, The Story of Christianity triumphantly captures the complexity and diversity of Christian history.
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 40,6 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.
Author : Leonard Fernando (s.j.),G. Gispert-Sauch
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 067005769X
"Written by two of the country's foremost theologians, Christianity in India traces the fascinating history of each of these communities, and describes the role of Christians in education, social services, multilingual publishing and the freedom struggle. The authors explain to non-Christians the tenets and rituals that bind the faithful, whether Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox - prayer, the Sunday service, baptism and marriage, the role of Jesus in daily life, Christians' understanding of other faiths - and examine the controversial issues of caste within Christianity and conversions from other faiths."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : J. Rebecca Lyman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9781561011612
In this sixth volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Rebecca Lyman introduces us to the world of the early church. Beginning with the Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures in which the first followers of Jesus lived and worshiped, she traces the growth of the Christian church's theology, worship, leadership, and ethics through its first six centuries, ending with Augustine of Hippo. Early Christian Traditions offers perceptive insights into the early church's intense conflicts that reveal the often thin line between orthodoxy and heresy, between true and false teachers, and among the many competing versions of Christianity. Lyman describes the early church's "family quarrels"--Gnosticism, Donatism, Arianism--as well as the theological, political, and linguistic issues that went into the making of the great creeds and established the apostolic tradition.