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The Triumph Of Christianity
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Author : Bart D. Ehrman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-02-22
The Triumph Of Christianity written by Bart D. Ehrman 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 2018-02-22 with Religion categories.
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God’s messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. It could so easily have been a forgotten sect of Judaism. Through meticulous research, Bart Ehrman, an expert on Christian history, texts and traditions, explores the way we think about one of the most important cultural transformations the world has ever seen, one that has shaped the art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics and economics of modern Western civilisation.
The Triumph Of Christianity
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-29
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The Triumph Of Christianity
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Author : Rodney Stark
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-10-25
The Triumph Of Christianity written by Rodney Stark and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Religion categories.
Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Starktraces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal andcontroversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world’slargest religion. In The Triumph of Christianity, the author of God’sBattalions and The Rise of Christianity gathers and refines decadesof powerful research and discovery into one concentrated, concise, and highlyreadable volume that explores Christianity’s most crucial episodes. The uniqueformat of Triumph of Christianity allows Stark to avoid densechronologies and difficult back stories, bringing readers right to the heart ofChristian history’s most vital controversies and enduring lessons.
The Triumph Of Christianity
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Author : Joseph P. Policape
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2021-05-20
The Triumph Of Christianity written by Joseph P. Policape and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with Fiction categories.
“Tell our stories, my child.” It was his mother’s last wish. Now, three years after her death, he gathers the stories that changed his life forever. Author Joseph P. Policape introduces us to the man responsible for recording these stories of faith’s victory in his new book entitled Voodoo and Christianity: Confrontations between Good and Evil. Mario’s flooded memories bring him back to the time of distant wounds. He had witnessed the town of Bainet’s suffering during its most treacherous times. Once, the whole town was enslaved by the demonic vodou spirits until a small band of Protestants started a war against them. His own family had been torn apart by this spiritual war. Mario’s mother had been a strong believer in Jesus while the father had rejected Christianity for his vodou gods. Read and discover the struggle that leads to the victory for the Pentecostal faith against vodou. After reading this book, readers will see how Jesus Christ alone stopped the dominant curse of Satan and his bloody, hopeless helpers in Bainet. Poetry was the river that Mr. Policape dived into to wash off the anger of his soul. It helped him to mock his own madness and was his support when he finally forgave himself and the world around him. His very first published book had the peculiar title, The Bird’s Love for Poetry and Essays, and came out in 2004. Two years later, in 2006, an intense, creative time, he published two books, A Spiritual Journey and Interpretations of Romance, and now working on two more creations, which hopefully will be out in the fall of 2009.
Christendom
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Author : Peter Heather
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Christendom written by Peter Heather and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times 'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review 'A page-turner' The Spectator In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance. In exploring how the Christian religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a small sect of isolated congregations was transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both so-called 'heresies' and other forms of belief. From the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention and willingness to mobilize well-directed force. Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.
The Triumph Of Religion
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Author : Jacques Lacan
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2013-10-07
The Triumph Of Religion written by Jacques Lacan and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Educated by the Marist Brothers, Jacques Lacan was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to bring them around to psychoanalysis.
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.
Christianity And The Triumph Of Humor
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Author : Bernard Schweizer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-17
Christianity And The Triumph Of Humor written by Bernard Schweizer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-17 with Religion categories.
This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious ideals. The book presents a compelling argument about the centrality of humor to the story of Western Christianity’s cultural and artistic development since the Middle Ages, taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines literary criticism, religious studies, philosophy, theology, and social science. After laying out the conceptual framework in Part 1, Part 2 analyzes key works of religious comedy across the ages from Dante to the present, and it samples the breadth of contemporary religious humor from Brad Stine to Robin Williams, and from Monty Python to South Park. Using critical, historical, and conceptual lenses, the book exposes and overturns past attempts by church authorities, scholars, and commentators to limit and control laughter based on religious, ideological, or moral criteria. This is a unique look into the role of humor and comedy around religion. It will, therefore, appeal to readers interested in multiple fields of inquiry, including religious studies, humor studies, the history of ideas, and comparative literature.
Summary Of Rodney Stark S The Triumph Of Christianity
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-28T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Rodney Stark S The Triumph Of Christianity written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28T22:59:00Z with Religion categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Romans were not the only ones to adopt a polytheistic religion. The Jews in the West and the Zoroastrians in the East rejected these ideas about the gods, and instead adopted a morally demanding monotheism. #2 Despite worshiping many gods, societies were not religiously diverse. The primary mission of pagan temples was to ensure that the gods favored the state and its ruling elite, and they served a clientele rather than a membership. #3 The Jews and the Zoroastrians were the first major groups of monotheists. They both faced the challenge of explaining the existence of evil. Judaism postulated the existence of Satan, while Zoroastrianism taught that Ahura Mazdā was engaged in a battle with the inferior Angra Mianyu. #4 The Romans were far more religious than the Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, or other pagans of their era. The Romans had a very free marketplace, and no state religion. Instead, they had many different faiths that were supported by voluntary contributions.
Constantine Versus Christ
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Author : Alistair Kee
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-08-31
Constantine Versus Christ written by Alistair Kee and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-31 with Religion categories.
The subject of this book is politics and religion, the relationship between Constantine and Christianity. Something happened in the reign of the Emperor Constantine that transformed both politics and religion in Europe, and anyone who seeks to understand modern Christianity must analyze this transformation and its consequences. The reign of Constantine is remembered as the victory of Christianity over the Roman Empire; the subtitle of the book indicates a more ominous assessment: "the triumph of ideology." Through a careful analysis of the sources, Dr. Kee argues that Constantine was not in fact a Christian and that the sign in which he conquered was not the cross of Christ but a political symbol of his own making. However, that is only the beginning of the story. For Constantine, religion was part of an imperial strategy, and the second part of this book shows just what that strategy was. Here is the development which marks a transition to a further stage, the way in which by using Christianity for his own ends, Constantine transformed it into something completely different. Constantine, Dr. Kee argues, along with his biographer and panegyrist Eusebius, succeeded in replacing the norms of Christ and the early church with the norms of imperial ideology. Why it has been previously thought that Constantine was a Christian is not because what he believed was Christian, but because what he believed came to be called Christian. And that represents "the triumph of ideology."