The Shape Of Christian History

Author : Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514002230

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The Shape of Christian History by Scott W. Sunquist Pdf

While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians—and especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement? Scott Sunquist invites readers to join him for a capstone course in historical thinking from a master teacher. Highlighting both the continuity and the diversity within the Christian movement over the centuries, he identifies three key concepts for framing church history: time, cross, and glory. These themes shed light to help us discern how the Jesus movement developed from the first century to the present, through an explosion of contextual expressions. Tracing these concepts through the centuries, we learn from the stories of Christians reflecting the glories of God's kingdom—and from their failures. Filled with historical case studies and stories from Sunquist's teaching around the world, The Shape of Christian History offers a framework for how to read and write church history. Even more, it demonstrates how the study of history illuminates God's mission in the world and sharpens our understanding of how to participate in that mission faithfully.

Author : Eve-Marie Becker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300165371

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The Birth of Christian History by Eve-Marie Becker Pdf

The first comprehensive account to explore the beginnings of early Christian history writing, tracing its origin to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Christian literary memory. In this eye-opening new study, Eve-Marie Becker explores the diverse ways in which history was written according to the Hellenistic literary tradition, focusing specifically on the time during which the New Testament writings came into being: from the mid-first century until the early second century CE. While acknowledging cases of historical awareness in other New Testament writings, Becker traces the origins of this historiographical approach to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts. Offering a bold new framework, Becker shows how the earliest Christian writings shaped “Christian” thinking and writing about history.

Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745957630

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The History of Christian Thought by Jonathan Hill Pdf

A society with no grasp of its history is like a person without a memory. This is particularly true of the history of ideas. This book is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have shaped Christian history and the culture of much of the world. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Jonathan Hill takes us on an enlightening journey from the first to the twenty first centuries. He shows us the key Christian thinkers through the ages - ranging from Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine and Aquinas through to Luther, Wesley, Kierkegaard and Barth - placing them in their historical context and assessing their contribution to the development of Christianity.

Author : Derek Cooper
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506402697

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Twenty Questions That Shaped World Christian History by Derek Cooper Pdf

The questions of Christianity are perennial. For example: How are Judaism and Christianity related? Are Jesus and the Holy Spirit God? Is the end of the world imminent? How should we relate faith and reason? In this innovative work, Derek Cooper tells the story of Christian history by presenting the twenty questions (one for each century!) that shaped the Christian church throughout the world. Ê The result is a book that narrates the exciting history of Christianity from a global perspective by means of simple questions and concerns that still face the church today. Ê Each century of world Christian history is explored by means of one question that attempts to encapsulate the central themes and concerns of that century for Christianity. Coverage of each century is sensitive to world regions and theological and cultural concerns that are often overlooked and neglected in books that are oriented in a more Western way.

Author : Justo L Gonz Lez,Justo L. González
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827205740

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The Changing Shape of Church History by Justo L Gonz Lez,Justo L. González Pdf

New, different readings of church history are finally reflecting Christianity s deep roots in every culture worldwide. Gonz lez listens to voices from centers other than the North Atlantic to help us see a different perspective of church history -a global story that includes those previously marginalized -as he offers us a hopeful outlook for the future of world Christianity.

Author : Robert C. Doyle
Publisher : Authentic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Eschatology
ISBN : 0853648182

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Eschatology and the Shape of Christian Belief by Robert C. Doyle Pdf

"This book demonstrates that to ask questions and find answers about 'the last things' is not to discover mere knowledge of future events, but is to lead into the whole of theology, to the very heart of the matter, where God is." "The author begins by introducing the foundational biblical themes in eschatology. He then traces the development of eschatological thought from the second-century A.D. to the present. In this way, the author shows how the pressures of historical circumstances and philosophical assumptions shape eschatology, even thought it may be rooted in Scripture. Special attention is paid to developments fostered by formative Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Owen, Edwards, Barth and Moltmann, and contemporary movements. By setting eschatological thinking against this wider theological framework the deeper interconnecting structures of Christian thought are exposed and important questions raised about our expectations for the future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830837052

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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by Thomas C. Oden Pdf

Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.

Author : Tim Grass
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334040620

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Modern Church History by Tim Grass Pdf

This is the SCM Core Text: "Modern Church History" provides an introduction to global Christianity from 1700 to the mid 20th C. The book aims to help students understand the processes, movements and individuals who have contributed to making the contemporary Christian landscape the shape it is in the 21st century. Theologically it takes a wide and inclusive approach to provide a balanced survey of Christianity in all its forms - Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox. Geographically it focuses on the Christian church in the UK, continental Europe and North America, and examines in each location the social movements, campaigns and campaigners, scientific and political challenges that have shaped the Christian Church throughout the period.Beginning with the reaction to Lutherism, it charts the rise of Pietism in Europe throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the influence of John Wesley and the Methodists, in the UK and the 'Great Awakening' in North America. The early chapters summarize the developments within the Christian Church in the UK, with detailed coverage of the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish situations, throughout the 19th Century. This is followed by a summary of the various schools of thought to have developed through the 20th C, including the church's reaction to the 2 world wars in Europe, fundamentalism in the USA. The book also provides specific coverage of the religious situation in North America throughout the modern period covering the development of separate black churches, the 'New Evangelicalism'. It is suitable for level two as well as introductory courses in modern church history or courses concerned with religion, culture and society in the 18th - 20th centuries

Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : UOM:39076002437635

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The History of Christian Thought by Jonathan Hill Pdf

In this lively and accessible introduction, Jonathan Hill offers a wealth of insight into the history of Christian thought and the colorful personalities who gave it shape and form.

Author : Joseph Early
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433683633

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A History of Christianity by Joseph Early Pdf

A History of Christianity examines the development of Christianity from its biblical foundations to modern times. While seeking to be comprehensive, historian Joseph Early Jr. centers on key events, people, theological developments, and conflicts that have shaped Christianity over its two-thousand-year history. He also presents the development of Christianity within the social, political, and economic challenges of the times. In doing so, he paints a clear, detailed, and balanced picture of the opportunities and struggles faced by the church and the contributions made by significant people, institutions, and traditions. A History of Christianity is an ideal introductory survey for undergraduate students and any reader who desires to know more about the broad scope of Christianity.

Author : Philip Schaff,Eusebius
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 5441 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547393771

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The History of Christian Church by Philip Schaff,Eusebius Pdf

"History of the Christian Church" is an eight volume account of Christian history written by Philip Schaff. In this great work Schaff covers the history of Christianity from the time of the apostles to the Reformation period. "Ecclesiastical History" of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century. The result was the first full-length historical narrative written from a Christian point of view. It was written in Koine Greek, and survives also in Latin, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts.

Author : Robbie F. Castleman
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830839643

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Story-Shaped Worship by Robbie F. Castleman Pdf

In Story-Shaped Worship Robbie Castleman attempts nothing less than to uncover the fundamental shape of worship. Right worship doesn't require a traditionalist return to earlier forms of church, she argues, but a fresh response to God in light of the revealed patterns of worship we find in the Bible and church history.

Author : John Warwick Montgomery
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725224995

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The Shape of the Past by John Warwick Montgomery Pdf

Dr. Montgomery contends that no one can "sit in a house by the side of the road and watch the world go by." Everyone is caught up in the flux of human life, and there is no naturalistic resting resting place within human history from which one can gain a universal, absolute perspective on man's life. Christianity is the only answer to this basic human predicament, for it claims, and by the resurrection backs up its claim, that there is a God and that He entered human history and revealed its essential nature.

Author : Valeriy A. Alikin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004183094

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The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering by Valeriy A. Alikin Pdf

Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a critical interpretation of all available sources, this book discusses the social and religio-historical background of the weekly gatherings of Christians and presents a fresh reconstruction of how the weekly gatherings originated and developed in both form and content. The topics studied here include the origins of the observance of Sunday as the weekly Christian feast-day, the shape and meaning of the weekly gatherings of the Christian communities, and the rise of customs such as preaching, praying, singing, and the reading of texts in these meetings.

Author : John Fletcher Hurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:HNVC41

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History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst Pdf