1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462134703321

Autore

Krasner Jonathan B

Titolo

The Benderly boys & American Jewish education [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan B. Krasner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : Brandeis University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-87527-6

1-61168-293-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (511 p.)

Collana

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Disciplina

370.89/924073

Soggetti

Jews - Education - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Page; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Making Order out of Chaos, 1900-1939; 1 The Making of the Master; 2 The New York Bureau and Its Critics; 3 A Few Good Men (and Women); 4 The Struggle for a Modern School System; 5 The Organization of a Jewish Education Profession; 6 Progress under Threat; Part II: Jewish Learning for Jewish Living, 1910-1945; 7 Education as Enculturation; 8 The Jewish School Curriculum and the Limits of Progressive Reform; 9 The Central Jewish Institute; 10 ''An Environment of Our Own Making''

Part III: Between ""K'lal Yisrael"" and Denominationalism,1940-196511 Unity in Diversity?; 12 Rebuilding, Renewal, and Reconciliation in the Postwar Era; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789684303321

Autore

Brent Allen

Titolo

Ignatius of Antioch [[electronic resource] ] : A Martyr Bishop and the origin of Episcopacy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2007

ISBN

1-283-20039-2

9786613200396

0-567-53260-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

270.1092

Soggetti

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Church orders -- History

Ignatius,  Saint, Bishop of Antioch,  d. ca. 110

Church orders - History - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Church history

Bishops

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The Recovery of Ignatius' Genuine Letters; 2 Ignatius' Personal History and the Church at Antioch; 3 The Choreography of the Martyr Procession; 4 Martyr Procession and Eucharist: The Christian Mysteries; 5 Recent Attacks on the Authenticity of the Ignatian Letters; 6 Ignatius and Polycarp; 7 In Conclusion; Select Bibliography and Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ignatius of Antioch (died c. 115) is one of the Apostolic Fathers of the Christian Church. In his letters to other churches he re-interpreted church order, the Eucharist and martyrdom against the backcloth of the Second Sophistic in Asia minor by using the cultural material of a pagan society. He so formed  the idea and theology of the office of a bishop in



the Christian church.  This book is an account of the circumstances and the cultural context in which Ignatius constructed what became the historic church order of Christendom. Allen Brent defends the authenticity of the Ignatian letters by