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Christianity A Social and Cultural History

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ISBN-10: 0135780713

ISBN-13: 9780135780718

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Howard C. Kee, Jerry W. Frost, Emily A. Hanawalt, Emily Albu, Carter Lindberg

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Written by contributing scholars who are experts in specific facets of developing Christianity, this survey provides a well-rounded introduction to the history of Christianity and is ideal for anyone interested in the impact of Christianity of world culture down through history. It shows how Christianity emerged from its original Jewish context and developed into a worldwide religion, offering perceptive studies on how its origins and development were influenced by the changing social and cultural contexts in which the founders and leaders of this tradition lived and thought.Provides detailed evidence of the influence of Greco-Roman and Jewish religious concepts and religious movements on…    
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Book details

List price: $106.65
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Emily Albu is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Normans in their Histories (2000) and has published articles in Imago Mundi, Anglo-Norman Studies, the Haskins Society Journal, and Arethusa. Her research interests include classical receptions, late antiquity, the twelfth century, and medieval historiography and cartography.

The Context, Birth, And Early Growth Of Christianity
From Alexander to Augustus: Cultural and Political Challenge to Jewish Religious Identity
Jesus of Nazareth and the Radical Alternative for Redefining the Covenant
Paul: Christian Encounter with the Roman World
From Charismatic Movement to Institution
Challenges to Christianity from Roman Culture
Christian Responses to the Challenges from the Culture
The Challenge from Within Christianity
Conflict of Church and Empire
The Christian Empire And The Early Middle AgeS
The Christian Empire and Arianism
Pagan Reaction and Christian Victory
West and East After the Fall
The Eastern Empire and the Struggle Against Islam
The Early Medieval Church in the West
The Flowering of Medieval Christendom
The Late Middle Ages And The Reformation
The Bloom of the Twelfth Century
The Harvest of the Medieval Church
“The Haywain,” or “All Flesh is Grass” : The Withering of the Medieval Bloom
The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century
The Radical Reformers
“The Most Perfect School of Christ” : The Genevan Reformation
The Protestant Mission and Evangelism: The “International Conspiracy.”
Catholic Renewal and the Counter-Reformation
European Christianity Confronts The Modern AgE
The Confessional Era
From Pietism to the Early Enlightenment
The Church in the Nineteenth Century
Church History and Theology Since World War I
Christianity And Culture In America
The New England Way
The Southern and Middle Colonies
The Great Awakening
Wars and Revolution
The Second Great Awakening
The Churches and Slavery
An American Roman Catholic Church
Sentimentality and Science
Responses to the City
Modernism and Fundamentalism
Religion in the Public Sphere, 1945—1996
Discordant Voices: Christianity in America Since 1945
Christianity In The Wider World
Christendom and Colonization
Mission in the Modern Era
World Christianity in the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography
Index