Word Made Flesh A History of Christian Thought

Name: Word Made Flesh A History of Christian Thought
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ISBN: 9781405108461

ISBN-10: 1405108460

ISBN-13: 9781405108461

Edition: 2004

Authors: Margaret R. Miles

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This outstanding textbook offers an original history of Christian thought, asking what it has meant over the centuries to participate in the religion of the Word made flesh. Traces Christian ideas, conversations, experiences and practices from the first century through to the dawn of modernity at the end of the eighteenth century. Presents an inclusive history, considering the critical roles of women and religious 'others'- dissenting Christians, Jews and Muslims - in shaping Christian thought. Sets Christian ideas in the context of conversations, controversies and concrete circumstances. Demonstrates the importance of liturgical and devotional exercises to the practice of…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Preface


Acknowledgments


Prelude: Flesh and Word



The Christian Movement in the Second and Third Centuries



Inclusions and Exclusions: The Fourth Century



Fleshing Out the Word: Medieval Christianity East and West



The Voice of the Pages: Incarnation and Hierarchy in the Medieval West Interlude



Death and the Body in the Fourteenth-Century West



The Suffering Body of Christ: The Fifteenth Century



Re-forming the Body of Christ: The Sixteenth Century, Part I



Reforming the Body of Christ: The Sixteenth Century, Part 2



Rationalism and Religious Passion: The Seventeenth Century



Keeping Body and Soul Together: Eighteenth-Century Christianity


Postlude: The Word Made Flesh


Bibliography


Index