The Beginnings Of Christianity
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Christianity
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Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-03-18
Christianity written by Diarmaid MacCulloch and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-18 with Religion categories.
The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox history and fills in often neglected accounts of conversion and confrontation in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. MacCulloch introduces us to monks and crusaders, heretics and reformers, popes and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in shaping human history and the intimate lives of men and women. And he uncovers the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the surprising beliefs of the founding fathers, the rise of the Evangelical movement and of Pentecostalism, and the recent crises within the Catholic Church. Bursting with original insights and a great pleasure to read, this monumental religious history will not soon be surpassed.
History Of Christianity
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Author : Paul Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-03-27
History Of Christianity written by Paul Johnson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with Religion categories.
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Introduction To The History Of Christianity
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Author : George Herring
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2006-09
Introduction To The History Of Christianity written by George Herring and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Religion categories.
A beautifully crafted and clearly written introduction to Christianity over its 2000 year history.
Cambridge History Of Christianity Volume 1 Origins To Constantine
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Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge History Of Christianity Volume 1 Origins To Constantine written by Margaret M. Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
A History Of Christianity In India
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Author : Stephen Neill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984-02-09
A History Of Christianity In India written by Stephen Neill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-02-09 with Religion categories.
Christians form the third largest religious community in India. How has this come about? There are many studies of separate groups: but there has so far been no major history of the three large groups - Roman Catholic, Protestant and Thomas Christians (Syrians). This work attempts to meet the need for such a history. It goes right back to the beginning and traces the story through the ups and downs of at least fifteen centuries. It includes careful studies of the political and social background and of the non-Christian reactions to the Christian message. The narration is non-technical and should present few difficulties to the thoughtful reader; the more technical matters are dealt with in notes and appendices. This book will be of interest to all students of Church History and will also prove fascinating to many who are concerned with the development of Christianity as a world religion and in the dialogue between different forms of faith.
A New History Of Early Christianity
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Author : Charles Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
A New History Of Early Christianity written by Charles Freeman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Religion categories.
"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
The Acts Of The Apostles
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2010-12-01
The Acts Of The Apostles written by and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Bibles categories.
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James.
Christian Beginnings
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Author : Géza Vermès
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012
Christian Beginnings written by Géza Vermès and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet fully recognisable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament - to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion.
The Beginnings Of Christianity
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Author : Howard Clark Kee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-11-22
The Beginnings Of Christianity written by Howard Clark Kee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-22 with Religion categories.
To understand the historical beginnings of Christianity requires one not only to examine the documents that the movement produced, but also to scrutinize other evidence-historical, literary, and archaeological-that can illumine the socio-cultural context in which Christianity began and how it responded to the influences that derived from that setting. This involves not only analysis of the readily accessible content of the relevant literary evidence, but also attention to the world-views and assumptions about reality that are inherent in these documents and other phenomena that have survived from this period. Attention to the roles of leadership and the modes of formation of social identity in Judaism and the continuing influence of these developments as Christianity began to take shape is important for historical analysis. Distinguished New Testament scholar Kee performs such readings of the texts and communities in this dazzling study of early Christian origins. In methodological terms, the historical study of Christian Origins in all its diversity must involve three different modes of analysis: (1) epistemological, (2) sociological, and (3) eschatological. The first concerns the way in which knowledge and communication of it were perceived. The second seeks to discern the way in which the community or tradition preserving and conveying this information defined its group identity and its shared values and aims. The third focuses on the way in which the group understood and affirmed its ultimate destiny and that of its members in the purpose of God. These factors are interrelated, and features of one mode of perception strongly influence details of the others, but it is useful to consider each of them in its own category in order to discern with greater precision the specific historical features of the spectrum of facets which appear in the evidence that has survived concerning the origins of Christianity.
A History Of Christianity
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Author : Owen Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1998-04-15
A History Of Christianity written by Owen Chadwick and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-15 with Religion categories.
Presents a history of the Christian faith, from its beginning as a Jewish sect to the impact of twentieth-century issues such as birth control, Muslim fundamentalism, and Nazi racism.