Origins Of Christendom In The West

Author : Alan Kreider
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567247407

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For well over a millennium the civilization of Western Europe was 'Christendom,' with Christianity the dominant religion, buttressed by social and legal structures. This volume studies Christendom at its origins, bringing the insights of leading scholars in the fields of ancient history, theology, patristics, and liturgy to bear on aspects of Europe's Christianization. From a missiological perspective, the contributors ask what is Christianity's impact upon culture, what is culture's impact upon Christianity? Focusing on the first four centuries, but also looking forward to the future of Christianity in the West, this book combines scholarly excellence with accessibility. It will be valued by scholars and students alike.

Author : Alan Kreider
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567087768

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Origins of Christendom in the West by Alan Kreider Pdf

For well over a millennium the civilization of Western Europe was 'Christendom,' with Christianity the dominant religion, buttressed by social and legal structures. This volume studies Christendom at its origins, bringing the insights of leading scholars in the fields of ancient history, theology, patristics, and liturgy to bear on aspects of Europe's Christianization. From a missiological perspective, the contributors ask what is Christianity's impact upon culture, what is culture's impact upon Christianity? Focusing on the first four centuries, but also looking forward to the future of Christianity in the West, this book combines scholarly excellence with accessibility. It will be valued by scholars and students alike.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118301265

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The Rise of Western Christendom by Peter Brown Pdf

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' Includes a fully updated bibliography and index

Author : Alan Kreider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725219496

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The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom by Alan Kreider Pdf

First-class insight into the life and mission of the Christian church in the first four centuries, based on solid scholarship and a clear sense of mission. --Samuel Escobar, Palmer Theological Seminary Written in a lively and clear manner, this small volume makes many connections between different aspects of early Christian history and practice. I have learned from reading it and recommend it to both scholars and beginners. --Paul Bradshaw, University of Notre Dame Kreider traces the changing nature of the process of conversion across some four centuries. I know of no better treatment of religious initiation undergone by the most seriously committed Christians of this period. --Ramsay MacMullen, Yale University I recommend this book highly to anyone interested not only in the history and theology of Christian initiation, but in the relationship of Christianity and culture throughout the ages. - Maxwell E. Johnson, University of Notre Dame, in 'Worship'

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093526

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Dominion by Tom Holland Pdf

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus-was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed. From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, Dominion tells the story of how Christianity transformed the modern world.

Author : Samuel Hugh Moffett
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331635

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A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II by Samuel Hugh Moffett Pdf

Author : Walls, Andrew F.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337231

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Crossing Cultural Frontiers by Walls, Andrew F. Pdf

Author : Roland Herbert Bainton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Christianity
ISBN : LCCN:66007003

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Christendom by Roland Herbert Bainton Pdf

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748131044

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Millennium by Tom Holland Pdf

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many Christians had dreaded, but rather the birthpangs of a radically new order. MILLENNIUM is a stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was the age of Canute, William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the invention of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and state. The story of how the distinctive culture of Europe - restless, creative and dynamic - was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times is as fascinating and as momentous as any in history.

Author : Dyron B. Daughrity
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 1433104520

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The Changing World of Christianity by Dyron B. Daughrity Pdf

Christianity has changed. Formerly known as the religion of Europe and North America, it is now a religion of the Global South: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. However, Christianity has never been merely a Western phenomenon - it has always been a borderless religion. Indeed, in six of the world's eight cultural blocks, Christianity is the largest faith. With convenient maps, helpful statistics, and concise histories of each of the world's major cultural blocks, The Changing World of Christianity is a dynamic guide for understanding Christianity's new ethos. From Ireland to Papua New Guinea, Argentina to China, South Africa to Russia, this book provides a clear and encyclopedic look at Christianity, the world's largest and most global religion.

Author : Adrian Hastings
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802848753

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A World History of Christianity by Adrian Hastings Pdf

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 : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118338841

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The Rise of Western Christendom by Peter Brown Pdf

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' Includes a fully updated bibliography and index

Author : Hugh McLeod,Werner Ustorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139438155

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The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 by Hugh McLeod,Werner Ustorf Pdf

Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since 1960 this process has spectacularly accelerated. In this 2003 book, historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries answer two central questions: what is the religious condition of Western Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, and how and why did Christendom decline? Beginning by overviewing the more recent situation, the authors then go back into the past, tracing the course of events in England, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and showing how the fate of Christendom is reflected in changing attitudes to death and to technology, and in the evolution of religious language. They reveal a pattern more complex and ambiguous than many of the conventional narratives will admit.

Author : John Strickland
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944967567

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The Age of Paradise by John Strickland Pdf

"Before there was a West, there was Christendom. This book tells the story of how both came to be." (from the Introduction) The Age of Paradise is the first of a projected four-volume history of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that gave rise to what we now call the West. At a time of renewed interest in the future of Western culture, author John Strickland-an Orthodox scholar, professor, and priest-offers a vision rooted in the deep past of the first millennium. At the heart of his story is the early Church's "culture of paradise," an experience of the world in which the kingdom of heaven was tangible and familiar. Drawing not only on worship and theology but statecraft and the arts, the author reveals the remarkably affirmative character Western culture once had under the influence of Christianity-in particular, of Eastern Christendom, which served the West not only as a cradle but as a tutor and guardian as well.

Author : Alan Kreider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556353932

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The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom by Alan Kreider Pdf

This book focuses on conversion and Christendom, and the relationship of one to the other. Alan Kreider helps readers think about the meaning of the word Christendom, its character and inner dynamics, arguing that methods of conversion produced Christendom. This study, then, examines Christendom as the product of conversion, the latter understood as changes within categories of belief, belonging, and behavior.