The Death Of Western Christianity

Author : Patrick Sookhdeo
Publisher : Isaac Publishing LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Christian civilization
ISBN : 0997703342

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The Death of Western Christianity by Patrick Sookhdeo Pdf

The Death of Western Christianity surveys the current state of Christianity in the West, looking in particular at how Western culture has influenced and weakened the Church. It looks also at how Christianity is increasingly under attack in Western society, and becoming despised and marginalised. It points out how faithful Christians are being targeted by legal and other means and advises how they should prepare themselves for greater persecution to come. This is a prophetic book, which is timely.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231546089

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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum Pdf

A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual. This expanded edition includes her 1995 article “Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective,” which takes a broader perspective on the book’s themes. It also includes a new introduction that explores the context in which the book and article were written, as well as why the Middle Ages matter for how we think about the body and life after death today.

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Peter Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674967588

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The Ransom of the Soul by Peter Brown Pdf

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how personal wealth in the pursuit of redemption led Church doctrine concerning the afterlife to evolve from speculation to firm reality. This new relationship to money set the stage for the Church's domination of medieval society.

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135115463

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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 : Carter Lindberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780631235996

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Love by Carter Lindberg Pdf

3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and movements associated with love, Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity traces the evolution and impact of this timeless topic. Takes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love Examines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history Tackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns Explores diverse periods and examples – from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise Contributes valuable insights into one of history’s most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to today’s liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Paul Silas Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351390422

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The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World by Paul Silas Peterson Pdf

While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are, in fact, stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and responses to one of the most complicated and controversial issues regarding the global transformation of Christianity today: the decline of "established Christianity" in the Western world. It also addresses the future of Christianity in the West after the decline. Drawing upon historical research, sociology, religious studies, philosophy and theology, an international panel of contributors provide new theoretical frameworks for understanding this decline and offer creative suggestions for responding to it. "Established Christianity" is conceptualized as historically, culturally, socially and politically embedded religion (with or without official established status). This is a dynamic volume that gives fresh perspective on one of the great social changes taking place in the West today. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of religious sociology, history and anthropology, as well as theologians.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231081278

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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum Pdf

Examining those periods between the late second and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western conceptions of death and resurrection, she suggests that the attitudes toward the body emerging from these discussions still undergird our modern conceptions of personal identity and the individual.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674286528

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The Ransom of the Soul by Peter Brown Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West. “[An] extraordinary new book...Prodigiously original—an astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influential...Peter Brown’s subtle and incisive tracking of the role of money in Christian attitudes toward the afterlife not only breaks down traditional geographical and chronological boundaries across more than four centuries. It provides wholly new perspectives on Christianity itself, its evolution, and, above all, its discontinuities. It demonstrates why the Middle Ages, when they finally arrived, were so very different from late antiquity.” —G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books “Peter Brown’s explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century...Brown shows brilliantly in this book how the future life of Christians beyond the grave was influenced in particular by money. —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator

Author : John Senior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christian civilization
ISBN : 1932528156

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The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior Pdf

Originally published: New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1694 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015084595076

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North-western Christian Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray S. Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620322116

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Theology, Death and Dying by Ray S. Anderson Pdf

How do we make sense of death--in theology, in philosophy, in experience? How do religions other than Christianity deal with death and with dying? In the now predominantly secular societies of the West, what are we to make of the theologies of death developed by writers such as Becker, Hick, Thielicke, and Macquarrie? Ray Anderson tackles his subject with clarity and without sentimentality. He discusses first the treatment--and indeed, the denial--of death by contemporary Western society, and its place in other religious traditions. Going on to discuss the origins of a Christian theology of death, he examines the legacy of Judaism and seeks to lay the foundations for a Christian anthropology in the unity of the body and soul. Death, he argues, is alien to God's determination of our personhood. Outlining a classic Christian understanding of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, he explores the implications of the Passion for our own mortality. Even if the sting of death has been removed, the experience of dying and bereavement remains. Ray Anderson considers pastoral approaches to dying in the light of his observations and arguments and makes his case for a reintegration of the experience of dying into our communities.

Author : Philip J. Sampson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830822812

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6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization by Philip J. Sampson Pdf

In this book Philip J. Sampson dispels six myths about Christianity and Western civilization and results in unsettling conven-tional wisdom and providing an enlightening look at truth.

Author : Patrick J. Buchanan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429902410

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The Death of the West by Patrick J. Buchanan Pdf

The national bestseller that shocked the nation--The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power. The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation. The Death of the West details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world order that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the preeminence of American democracy. The Death of the West is a timely, provocative study that asks the question that quietly troubles millions: Is the America we grew up in gone forever?