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- ISBN-13:
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- Pub. Date:
- 08/22/2008
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- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- ISBN-10:
- 0742560899
- ISBN-13:
- 9780742560895
- Pub. Date:
- 08/22/2008
- Publisher:
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ISBN-13: | 9780742560895 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 08/22/2008 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
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Table of Contents
Part 1 The Emergence of ChristianityChapter 2 Judaism in Various Forms: An Ambivalent InheritanceChapter 3 Literature of the Early Church: Texts as Preservers of ExperienceChapter 4 Roman Power and Religion: Divine Destinies in ConflictChapter 5 Worship in the Early Church: A Case Study in AdaptationPart 6 The Christian Religion in Late AntiquityChapter 7 The Emergence of Hierarchy: Papal BeginningsChapter 8 The Flourishing of Liturgy: Devotion Through Ritual and ImageryChapter 9 The Monastic Microcosm: The Benedictine Norm and ReformChapter 10 The Expansion of the Church: First Missionary Movements and the CrusadesPart 11 Medieval Western Christian CultureChapter 12 Carolingian Culture and Religion: A Medieval RenaissanceChapter 13 Scholasticism: From Anselm to AquinasChapter 14 The Church and the Law: The Investiture ControversyChapter 15 The Mendicant Orders and Lay Movements: New Forms of Religious LifeChapter 16 Scholasticism and Salvation: The Sacramental SystemChapter 17 Spirituality and Mystical Experience: Medieval MysticsPart 18 From Medieval to Modern, from One Church, ManyChapter 19 Launching the Reformation: Martin Luther's RevolutionChapter 20 Development of the Reformation: The Spread of ProtestantismChapter 21 Protestant Orthodoxy: Developments in ScholasticismChapter 22 Reformation-Era Catholicism: Reaction and New Religious OrdersChapter 23 The Challenge of Rationalism: Skepticism and Faith in the 17th CenturyChapter 24 Early American Religion: Between Reformation and EnlightenmentPart 25 From Enlightenment to ModernityChapter 26 Enlightenment Religion: Adaptations in an Age of ProgressChapter 27 The Dawn of Modern Religion: The West and its MissionsChapter 28 Challenges to the English Church: The Oxford Movement and EvolutionChapter 29 Nineteenth-century America: Religious Diversity and RevivalismChapter 30 Roman Catholicism: Confronting the Modern WorldPart 31 The Twentieth Century and BeyondChapter 32 Social Christianity: The Dawn of the 20th CenturyChapter 33 The Crisis of War: The Recovery of OrthodoxyChapter 34 Ecumenical Initiatives: The World Council of Churches and Vatican IIChapter 35 Mainstreams and Margins: Colonialism and Liberation TheologyChapter 36 Christianity at the Dawn of the Third MillenniumIntroduction
This text aims to introduce students in a new millennium to a tradition that shaped two previous millennia whose onset coincided with the dawn of the Roman Empire. The church emerged at a time most unfavorable to its survival. It gradually found shape and momentum amidst incalculable political and cultural obstacles, and became in turn an obstacle to forces hostile to itself. Although the intention of nineteenth-century Christian missionaries was to standardize the ways in which the church provided meaning to various peoples, the global expansion of Christianity actually provided a diversity of such meanings. In recent decades the church has slowly come to recognize that it is just one cultural system among many, existing in a pluralistic world where the spread of civilization is no longer predominantly identified with the expansion of Europeanculture. If the church of the first century recognized no differences between Jews and Greeks, East and West, so the church in the twenty-first century must struggle to eliminate differences between races and sexes, nations and classes. This narrative explains how some of the current problems confronted by the modern church came into being.
Thematically, this work aims to be as inclusive as possible. It begins by focusing on the Jewish roots of Christianity within the context of the Roman Empire, and Judeo-Christian relations in general. It also covers the history of Christianity's relations with Islam, and the rivalry between the Holy Roman Empire in the West and the Byzantine Empire in the East that oversaw the spread of Orthodoxy continuing to this day. The book deals with the impact on Christianity of the pivotal change from a largely oral medieval Christian tradition to a written culture that flourished with Gutenberg's invention of moveable type and the first printing presses. The various roles played by women in the church is exemplified by Beguines, female medieval mystics, and contemporary feminist theologians. The book's subjects range from scholasticism, nominalism, Jansenism, and Pietism, to Enlightenment religions, social Christianity, and Liberation Theology. The additional coverage of artistic strains and popular religious movements is intended to point to a new direction in church history.
This book is meant to be as flexible as possible and is organized so that it can be read either continuously or selectively. Instructors who wish to omit periods of church history will be able to do so. The six parts represent conventional breaks in the history of the Christian tradition. A timeline at the beginning of each part gives an overview of some of the most important events within that period. Each chapter is an independent unit, although cross-references to other chapters offer extended explanations and discussions of points at issue.
Biographical Profiles highlight the lives and works of some of the most influential people in the history of Christianity, including Jesus himself, St. Augustine, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Vincent de Paul, Siren Kierkegaard, and Paul Tillieh. Extracts from the writings of religious figuresSt. Benedict, Hildegard of Bingen, Margery Kempe, Jonathan Edwards, Karl Barth, Gustavo Gutierrez, and many othersoffer insights into the important issues of the day. Who's Who boxes summarize the leading figures within various religious movements, from the twelve apostles to current Liberation and feminist historians. Nine maps offer snapshots into areas such as the first Christian communities and the spread of Christianity compared with other religions.
With a view to objectivity, I have adopted as much as possible the stance of an outsider to the Christian tradition. If some observations appear challenging, they are offered in the interest of depicting Christianity as it might be viewed by today's non-Christians.
My thanks are extended to the following reviewers, whose comments helped me in preparing the final version of the manuscript: Greta Austin, Bucknell University; Lee Bailey, Ithaca College; and Joseph Currie, Fordham University.
This work has been a team effort, and it is a pleasure to recognize the help of my often indefatigable partners at Laurence King Publishing Ltd: my editors Richard Mason, Damian Thompson, Christine Davis, and Melanie White; copyeditor Eleanor van Zandt; picture editor Peter Kent; designer Melinda Welch; and typesetter and layout artist Paul Barrett.
Ralph Keen
University of Iowa
May, 2003