The Primitive Church in the Modern World
Author | : Richard Thomas Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780252021947 |
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Author | : Richard Thomas Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780252021947 |
Author | : Richard Thomas Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780252060298 |
The dream of restoring primitive Christianity lies close to the core of the identity of some American denominations---Churches of Christ, Latter-day Saints, some Mennonites, and a variety of Holiness and Pentecostal denominations. But how can a return to ancient Christianity be sustained in a world increasingly driven by modernization? What meaning might such a vision have in the modern world? Twelve distinguished scholars explore these and related questions in this provocative book.
Author | : Rev. Fr. D. I. Lanslots |
Publisher | : TAN Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1505105854 |
How the Catholic Church got started. Covers Sts. Peter and Paul; first Popes; the written and unwritten word; Council of Jerusalem; persecutions; religious life of early Christians; early popes and martyrs; birth of the New Testament.
Author | : Andrew Spicer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351912763 |
Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself artistically and architecturally stood apart from the parish community. It was often the largest and only stone-built building in a village; it was legally distinct being subject to canon law, as well as consecrated for the celebration of religious rites. The buildings associated with the "cure of souls" were sacred sites or holy places, where humanity interacted with the divine. In spite of the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this balance and reflects on the parish church across a number of confessions - Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Anti-Trinitarian - during the early modern period. Rather than providing a series of case studies of individual buildings, each essay looks at the evolution of parish churches in response to religious reform as well as confessional change and upheaval. They examine aspects of their design and construction; furnishings and material culture; liturgy and the use of the parish church. While these essays range widely across Europe, the volume also considers how religious provision and the parish church were translated into a global context with colonial and commercial expansion in the Americas and Asia. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to identify what was distinctive about the parish church for the congregations that gathered in them for worship and for communities across the early modern world.
Author | : Alan Kreider |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493400339 |
How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because the virtue of patience was of central importance in the life and witness of the early Christians. They wrote about patience, not evangelism, and reflected on prayer, catechesis, and worship, yet the church grew--not by specific strategies but by patient ferment.
Author | : C. Kavin Rowe |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1791008216 |
At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking. Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, and expected, losing its power to surprise and transform. We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was – and what it still can be. We need to recover the surprise of Christianity. We need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians, which will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst. Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of what it is to understand Christianity at all, and thus what it is to remember and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with being Christian at the beginning. This remembering and relearning can, in turn, surprise us all over again and chart a course for our witness today.
Author | : Bill Huebsch |
Publisher | : Thomas More |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Church and social problems |
ISBN | : 9780883473726 |
The hope and dream of the creators of these study guides is that all the faithful of the Church--laity, religious, and clergy--become familiar with the Vatican II documents and better equipped to pass on the faith. That all the faithful become better informed ministers of the Church and help animate the world with the Christian Spirit. It is the dream of Pope John XXIII himself. May we recognize that, in the council's work.
Author | : Linda Woodhead |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199687749 |
This is a short, accessible analysis of Christianity that focuses on its social and cultural diversity as well as its historical dimensions.