Christianity In Early Britain

Author : Peter Stanford
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781529396447

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If These Stones Could Talk by Peter Stanford Pdf

'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed. In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other. 'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday

Author : Gerald Bray
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789741186

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The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland by Gerald Bray Pdf

The history of Britain and Ireland is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Christian faith that has shaped it. Introduced when the nations of these islands were still in their infancy, Christianity has provided the framework for their development from the beginning. Gerald Bray's comprehensive overview demonstrates the remarkable creativity and resilience of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. Through the ages, it has adapted to the challenges of presenting the gospel of Christ to different generations in a variety of circumstances. As a result, it is at once a recognizable offshoot of the universal church and a world of its own. It has also profoundly affected the notable spread of Christianity worldwide in recent times. Although historians have done much to explain the details of how the church has evolved separately in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, a synthesis of the whole has rarely been attempted. Yet the story of one nation cannot be understood properly without involving the others; so, Gerald Bray sets individual narratives in an overarching framework. Accessible to a general readership, The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland draws on current scholarship to serve as a reference work for students of both history and theology.

Author : E.O. James
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000601305

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A History of Christianity in England by E.O. James Pdf

First published in 1949, A History of Christianity in England is a kaleidoscopic view of the religious situation in England for readers and students who wish to eventually take it up as a serious study. The author asserts that the influence of the Church and the State in the development of the English national life and character has also led to the growth of a unique English Christianity. English religion appears neither completely Catholic, properly Protestant nor consistently Liberal, rendering itself an enigma. The author believes that the confusion of its various discordant parts can be resolved by situating English Christianity within a historical continuum. This book will be of interest to students of theology, history and Christianity.

Author : Hugh Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : England
ISBN : UVA:X000597931

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Christianity in Early Britain by Hugh Williams Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911188568

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Early Christianity in South-West Britain by Elizabeth Rees Pdf

This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patrick’s fifth-century ‘Confessions’ to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villa’s funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a ‘Celtic’ monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padel’s meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic ‘cells’ have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135115531

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The Death of Christian Britain by Callum G. Brown Pdf

The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity. Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's. Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.

Author : Charles Thomas,Charles Christi Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520043928

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Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500 by Charles Thomas,Charles Christi Thomas Pdf

Author : Andrew Gray (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112052552624

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The Origin and Early History of Christianity in Britain by Andrew Gray (D.D.) Pdf

Author : Dorothy Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317803096

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Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain (Routledge Revivals) by Dorothy Watts Pdf

In Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain, first published in 1991, Professor Dorothy Watts sets out to distinguish possible Pagan features in Romano-British Christianity in the period leading up to and immediately following the withdrawal of Roman forces in AD 410. Watts argues that British Christianity at the time contained many Pagan influences, suggesting that the former, although it had been present in the British Isles for some two centuries, was not nearly as firmly established as in other parts of the Empire. Building on recent developments in the archaeology of Roman Britain, and utilising a nuanced method for deciphering the significance of objects with ambiguous religious identities, Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain will be of interest to classicists, students of the history of the British Isles, Church historians, and also to those generally interested in the place of Christianity during the twilight of the Western Roman Empire.

Author : James Bardsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Church history
ISBN : BL:A0018933138

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Introduction of Christianity into Britain in Apostolic Times, with a brief history of the early English Church by James Bardsley Pdf

Author : Maurice Willmore Barley,Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002691445

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Christianity in Britain, 300-700 by Maurice Willmore Barley,Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson Pdf

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000127028177

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Not Angels, But Anglicans by Henry Chadwick Pdf

Traces the history and development of Christianity in Britain from Roman times through twenty often turbulent centuries, conveying the character and contribution of Christianity in the landscape of contemporary Britain.

Author : Hugh Williams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1333523416

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Christianity in Early Britain (Classic Reprint) by Hugh Williams Pdf

Excerpt from Christianity in Early Britain Two britains 27 6 - 294 Excursus D British Hagiographic Literature. Vitae Sanctorum. Lives of the Saints. Bucheddau y. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Michael W. Herren,Shirley Ann Brown
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851158891

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Christ in Celtic Christianity by Michael W. Herren,Shirley Ann Brown Pdf

Interprets the nature of Christianity in Celtic Britain and Ireland from the 5th to the 10th cent., based on written and visual evidence- images of Christ in manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture. The strain of the Pelagianism in Britain in the early 5th century influenced the theology and practice of the Celtic monastic Churches on both sides of the Irish Sea, making theological spectrum quite distinct from that of the continent.

Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911188582

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Early Christianity in South-West Britain by Elizabeth Rees Pdf

This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patrick’s fifth-century ‘Confessions’ to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villa’s funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a ‘Celtic’ monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padel’s meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic ‘cells’ have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.