Readings in World Christian History: Earliest Christianity to 1453
Title | Readings in World Christian History: Earliest Christianity to 1453 PDF eBook |
Author | John Wayland Coakley |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Total Pages | 1145 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608333892 |
This companion to "History of the World Christian Movement explores how varied and multi-cultural Christian origins and history really are.
History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453
Title | History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 PDF eBook |
Author | Dale T. Irvin |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Total Pages | 885 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608332438 |
History of the World Christian Movement shows that from the beginning Christianity has been a world religion, informed and shaped through the interplay of gospel and culture church and world.
Readings in World Christian History: Earliest Christianity to 1453
Title | Readings in World Christian History: Earliest Christianity to 1453 PDF eBook |
Author | John Wayland Coakley |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Total Pages | 1144 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1570755205 |
This companion to "History of the World Christian Movement explores how varied and multi-cultural Christian origins and history really are.
History of the World Christian Movement
Title | History of the World Christian Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Dale T. Irvin |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 540 |
Release | 2002-01-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780567088666 |
This thorough, lucid, solidly researched book, the first of two volumes, charts the history of global Christianity.
A World History of Christianity
Title | A World History of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Hastings |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 612 |
Release | 2000-07-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802848758 |
This superb volume provides the first genuinely global one-volume history of the rise and development of the Christian faith. An international team of specialists takes seriously the geographical diversity of the Christian story, discussing the impact of Christianity not only in the West but also in Latin America, Africa, India, the Orient and Australasia.
When Our World Became Christian
Title | When Our World Became Christian PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Veyne |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2013-10-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0745683371 |
This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations. Was it because a Roman emperor, Constantine, who was master of the Western world at the time, became a sincere convert to Christianity and set out to Christianize the whole world in order to save it? Or was it because, as a great emperor, Constantine needed a great religion, and in comparison to the pagan gods, Christianity, despite being a minority sect, was an avant-garde religion unlike anything seen before? Or was it because Constantine limited himself to helping the Christians set up their Church, a network of bishoprics that covered the vast Roman Empire, and that gradually and with little overt resistance the pagan masses embraced Christianity as their own religion? In the course of deciding between these explanations Paul Veyne sheds fresh light on one of the most profound transformations that shaped the modern world - the Christianization of the West. A bestseller in France, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in history, religion and the rise of the modern world.
Making Room
Title | Making Room PDF eBook |
Author | Chistine D. Pohl |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1999-08-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802844316 |
For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.