The Original Bishops
Title | The Original Bishops PDF eBook |
Author | Alistair C. Stewart |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441245707 |
A Jesus Creed 2015 Book of the Year This work provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices. Alistair Stewart, a leading authority on early Christianity and a meticulous scholar, provides essential groundwork for historical and theological discussions. Stewart refutes a long-held consensus that church offices emerged from collective leadership at the end of the first century. He argues that governance by elders was unknown in the first centuries and that bishops emerged at the beginning of the church; however, they were nothing like bishops of a later period. The church offices as presently known emerged in the late second century. Stewart debunks widespread assumptions and misunderstandings, offers carefully nuanced readings of the ancient evidence, and fully interacts with pertinent secondary scholarship.
The Original Bishops
Title | The Original Bishops PDF eBook |
Author | Alistair Stewart-Sykes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2014-07-03 |
Genre | RELIGION |
ISBN | 9781441248435 |
A leading authority on early Christianity provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices, offering careful readings of the ancient evidence.
Constantine and the Bishops
Title | Constantine and the Bishops PDF eBook |
Author | H. A. Drake |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 636 |
Release | 2002-09-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780801871047 |
Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.
Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity
Title | Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Nibley |
Publisher | Shadow Mountain |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781590383896 |
Original Bishops
Title | Original Bishops PDF eBook |
Author | Alistair C. Stewart |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2022-04-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781540966254 |
Why Christianity Must Change or Die
Title | Why Christianity Must Change or Die PDF eBook |
Author | John Shelby Spong |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0061756121 |
An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today's thinking Christian. In this compelling and heartfelt book, he sounds a rousing call for a Christianity based on critical thought rather than blind faith, on love rather than judgment, and that focuses on life more than religion.
Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules
Title | Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules PDF eBook |
Author | J. Barry Vaughn |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2013-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817318119 |
Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama’s cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational minority in the state. The consensus of southern historians is that, since the Second Great Awakening, evangelicalism has dominated the South. This is certainly true when one considers the extent to which southern culture is dominated by evangelical rhetoric and ideas. However, in Alabama one non-evangelical group has played a significant role in shaping the state’s history. J. Barry Vaughn explains that, although the Episcopal Church has always been a small fraction (around 1 percent) of Alabama’s population, an inordinately high proportion, close to 10 percent, of Alabama’s significant leaders have belonged to this denomination. Many of these leaders came to the Episcopal Church from other denominations because they were attracted to the church’s wide degree of doctrinal latitude and laissez-faire attitude toward human frailty. Vaughn argues that the church was able to attract many of the state’s governors, congressmen, and legislators by positioning itself as the church of conservative political elites in the state--the planters before the Civil War, the “Bourbons” after the Civil War, and the “Big Mules” during industrialization. He begins this narrative by explaining how Anglicanism came to Alabama and then highlights how Episcopal bishops and congregation members alike took active roles in key historic movements including the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement. Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules closes with Vaughn’s own predictions about the fate of the Episcopal Church in twenty-first-century Alabama.