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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143252103321

Autore

Cameron Euan

Titolo

Interpreting Christian History [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-280-19753-6

9786610197538

0-470-77416-9

1-4051-4541-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

270

Soggetti

Church history

History

History - Religious aspects - Christianity

Church history - Christianity - Religious aspects

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Diversities of Belief, Practice, and Priorities; History and Diversity; Steering Between Two Extremes; The Compass and Structure of the Book; History and Theory; 1 The Unfolding of Christian History: a Sketch; Christianity: a Jewish Heresy Spreads Across the Eastern Empire; Greek and Latin, East and West; Persecution, Legal Establishment, Empowerment, and Retreat; The Eastern Church, the Spread of Islam, and Expansion Northwards; The Western Church of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Disputes over Control, and the Rise of a Continental Church

The High Medieval SynthesisLater Middle Ages: the Era of Fragmentation; Challenges and Ruptures: Renaissance and Reformation; The Age of Competing Orthodoxies; Challenges to Orthodoxy: Reason, Enlightenment, and Revolution; The Era of



Romanticism and its Implications; The Multiple Crises of the Twentieth Century; Reflecting on the Process of Historical Development; 2 Constantly Shifting Emphases in Christian History; Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals; Asceticism: Giving Things Up for God; Expecting Miracles; Martyrdom; Sacrament and Sacrifice: the Eucharistic Church

The Company of Heaven: the Communion of SaintsPurity of Doctrine and Instruction: the School of Faith; The Christian Community and its Membership; Reflections on Shifting Priorities; 3 Church Historians' Responses to Change and Diversity; The Early Church: Eusebius of Caesarea; Early Medieval Church History: Bede; The High Middle Ages: A Monastic Chronicle; Renaissance Historiography: Rhetoric and Skepticism; The Reformation and the Rise of a Sense of History; The Rise of Reformed Schools of Church History; Confessional Histories in the Age of Orthodoxy

Writing Christian History in the Shadow of the EnlightenmentToward ''Modern'' Histories of Christianity; Postmodern and Liberation-oriented Approaches to Christian History; Summary and Conclusions; 4 Some Theologians Reflect on the Historical Problem; The Historical Background to Historical-critical Theology; The Challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to ''Modernizing'' Theology; German Liberal Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Responses to Liberalism in the Twentieth Century; Thomism, Mysticism, and Neo-liberalism: Some Roman Catholic Responses

Cultural Diversity, Liberation, Postliberalism, and PostmodernityDrawing the Threads Together; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the theological lessons to be learnt from 2000 years of Christian Church history. An exploration of the theological lessons to be learnt from the difficult history of the Christian churches over the past 2,000 years Opens with an introductory essay on the whole of Church history, making the book suitable for lay readers as well as students Combines historical, historiographical and theological analysis Reunites the disciplines of theology and Church history Concludes that we can only ever perceive a facet of Christianity given our hist