LEADER 04967nam 22007453u 450 001 9910830342103321 005 20230330003921.0 010 $a1-280-19753-6 010 $a9786610197538 010 $a0-470-77416-9 010 $a1-4051-4541-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351848 035 $a(EBL)238402 035 $a(OCoLC)437151847 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000181969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179717 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000181969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10166089 035 $a(PQKB)10764344 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC238402 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351848 100 $a20131014d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInterpreting Christian History$b[electronic resource] 210 $aHoboken $cWiley$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-21522-0 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aWriting 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 327 $aCultural Diversity, Liberation, Postliberalism, and PostmodernityDrawing the Threads Together; Conclusion; Notes; Index 330 $aThis 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 606 $aChurch history 606 $aChurch history 606 $aHistory 606 $aHistory - Religious aspects - Christianity 606 $aChurch history$xReligious aspects 606 $aHistory 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aChristianity$2HILCC 615 4$aChurch history. 615 4$aChurch history. 615 4$aHistory. 615 4$aHistory - Religious aspects - Christianity. 615 0$aChurch history$xReligious aspects 615 0$aHistory 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aChristianity 676 $a270 700 $aCameron$b Euan$0153677 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910830342103321 996 $aInterpreting Christian History$94084490 997 $aUNINA