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Baker Publishing Group You Lost Me Why Young Christians Are Leaving
Book SynopsisBased on original research of 18-29 year olds who were raised in the church, this groundbreaking book will help church leaders identify who's leaving, why they're leaving, and what to do about it.
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Baker Publishing Group Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Book SynopsisProvides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Women as Daughters2. Marriage and Matron Ideals3. Wives and the Realities of Marriage4. Motherhood5. Religious Activities of Gentile Women and God-Fearers6. Religious Activities and Informal Power of Jewish and Christian Women7. Women's Work8. Slaves and Prostitutes9. Benefactors and the Institution of PatronageConclusionIndexes
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Baker Publishing Group Christian Women in the Patristic World Their
Book SynopsisIlluminates the influence, authority, and legacy of women in the early Christian centuries, showing how they helped shape Christianity in its beliefs and practices.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Thecla: Christian Female Protomartyr and Virgin of the Church2. Perpetua and Felicitas: Mothers and Martyrs3. Christian Women in Catacomb Art4. From Pagan to Christian, Martyr to Ascetic5. Helena Augusta, "Mother of the Empire"6. Egeria's Itinerary and Christian Pilgrimage7. Macrina the Ascetic Entrepreneur and the "Unlearned" Wisdom of Monica8. Paula, Marcella, and the Melanias: Ascetics, Scholars, and Compatriots in Controversy9. Aelia Pulcheria, "Protectress of the Empire," and Empress Eudocia, a Theological PoetConclusion: Responsibly RememberingIndexes
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Baker Publishing Group Calvin and the Reformed Tradition On the Work of
Book SynopsisA world-class scholar examines the relationship of Calvin's theology to the Reformed tradition and provides historical perspective on topics of current interest.Table of ContentsContents1. From Reformation to Orthodoxy: The Reformed Tradition in the Early Modern Era2. Was Calvin a Calvinist?3. Calvin on Christ's Satisfaction and Its Efficacy: The Issue of "Limited Atonement"4. A Tale of Two Wills? Calvin, Amyraut, and Du Moulin on Ezekiel 18:235. Davenant and Du Moulin: Variant Approaches to Hypothetical Universalism6. The "Golden Chain" and the Causality of Salvation: Beginnings of the Reformed Ordo Salutis7. Union with Christ and the Ordo Salutis: Reflections on Developments in Early Modern Reformed Thought8. Calvin, Beza, and the Later Reformed on Assurance of Salvation and the "Practical Syllogism"9. ConclusionsIndex
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Baker Publishing Group Early Christian Martyr Stories
Book SynopsisPersonal narratives are powerful instruments for teaching, both for conveying information and for forming character. The martyrdom accounts preserved in the literature of early Christianity are especially intense and dramatic. However, these narratives are not readily available and are often written in intimidating prose, making them largely inaccessible for the average reader. This introductory text brings together key early Christian martyrdom stories in a single volume, offering new, easy-to-read translations and expert commentary. An introduction and explanatory notes accompany each translation. The book not only provides a vivid window into the world of early Christianity but also offers spiritual encouragement and inspiration for Christian life today.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. The Maccabean Martyrs: Witnesses for God before Christ2. Peter and Paul: Apostolic Proto-Martyrs3. Ignatius of Antioch: Final Journey to Christ4. Polycarp of Smyrna: A Gospel Passion5. Justin Martyr: Apologetics at the Ultimate Price6. The Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne: A Crown of Many Flowers7. The Scillitan Martyrs: Africa Takes Its Stand8. Perpetua and Felicity: Heroines of Faith9. Tertullian: "The Blood of Christians Is Seed"10. Origen of Alexandria: A Theology of Martyrdom11. The Great Persecution: The Church's Hour of Fiery Testing12. The Peace of Constantine: An Empire Conquered by the Cross13. Augustine of Hippo: Honoring the Martyrs' MemoryEpilogue: The Meaning of the MartyrsIndex
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Baker Publishing Group Jesus Revolution How God Transformed an Unlikely
Book SynopsisPastor, author, and evangelist and New York Times bestselling author pair up to tell the riveting story of the Jesus Movement, challenging readers to be radically transformed by their own personal Jesus revolution, and offering hope for a new revival in the world.
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Baker Publishing Group The Fathers of the Church A Comprehensive
Book SynopsisThis dependable, comprehensive introduction to patristic authors and writings offers a clear presentation of early Christian thought.
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Baker Publishing Group A New History of Redemption
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Baker Publishing Group Quest for the Historical Apostles Tracing Their
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive historical and literary introduction to the lives of the apostles underscores their impact on the growth of the early church.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Quest1. The Path2. Peter: The Rooster3. Andrew: The Saltire4. James: The Scallop Shell5. John: The Eagle6. Philip: The Bread7. Bartholomew: The Knife8. Thomas: The Builder9. Matthew: The Publican10. James: The Lesser11. Jude: The Exorcist12. Simon: The Zealot13. Matthias: The Elected14. Paul: The Sword15. The DiscoveryIndexes
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Moody Publishers Disappearing Church
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Beyond Immanence
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Living Belief
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Migration and the Making of Global Christianity
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Gospel Witness Through the Ages
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Belief and Unbelief in the Ancient World
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Gospel Media
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Reading Evangelicals
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Imitation in Early Christianity
Book SynopsisWhat did exhortations to ?follow Jesus? or ?imitate Christ? mean to early Christians? Cornelis Bennema examines mimesis as a religious-ethical concept in early Christianity?the imitation of Jesus (and other exemplars) to become a better, more Christlike person. Situating appeals for imitation in the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers within the cultural and social context of the broader Greco-Roman world, Bennema shows how early Christian mimesis was not about literal replication, but instead was a creative, cognitive, and transformative means for shaping conduct and character. As part of this study, Bennema explores key questions about the historic origins of early Christian mimesis; the language that early Christian authors used to articulate the concept of mimesis; the scope, nature, and workings of mimesis in each major section of early Christian literature; and how early Christians navigated the challenges of imitating exemplars (such as Paul or Jesus) who were not physically present. Offering well-researched answers to these questions, Bennema provides readers with a nuanced and informative picture of exhortations to imitation in the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers.
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co The Bible in the Early Church
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Judeophobia and the New Testament
Book SynopsisAn essential resource for understanding the troubling role of the Christian scriptures in anti-Semitism This eye-opening collection of essays is essential reading for anyone concerned about the ways that Christian scripture has been used?both in the past and the present?in service of anti-Semitism. The authors seek to identify, contextualize, and problematize New Testament ?Judeophobia,? a broad heading that encompasses anti-Semitism, supersessionism, and various discriminatory practices against Jews at different points in history. In the first half of Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts, readers engage with the subject matter through thematic essays. In the second half, readers engage with text-based essays that focus on individual books of the New Testament as well as relevant non-canonical literature. Throughout, the book?s goal is to educate readers about the ways that New Testament texts have been used to engender Judeophobia from the early church to today. While the book is designed primarily as a resource for teachers and students, it also aims to help New Testament scholars account for Judeophobic interpretations, take responsibility for them, and encourage the discipline to work against its own role in rising anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence.
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Making Disciples
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company How Did They Read the Prophets
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University of Pennsylvania Press Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Much has been written on medieval fairies in the past twenty years or so, but in Elf Queens and Holy Friars Green succeeds triumphantly in bringing new insights and thoughtful analysis to their history and their metamorphoses into divergent forms, as the early modern world begins to take shape." * The Times Literary Supplement *"As a guide to the traditions of Britain and France, [Green's] can't be surpassed. This is cultural history from below, not the usual top-down perspective. . . . It is not only original, sensible and deeply researched but accessible. Not only medievalists will actively enjoy reading it." * London Review of Books *"This wonderful book is a rare example of work which is genuinely interdisciplinary, making an equal contribution to our understanding of medieval romance literature, Western Christian theology and medieval Western European cultural history. It does this by bringing together two different bodies of source material-the romances and the writings of medieval churchmen-in both of which the author is equally expert. The result is a whole series of exciting new insights, centred on the theme of fairyland as a contested site in a struggle between official and unofficial cultures in the high and late Middle Ages." * Time and Mind *"A new book by Richard Firth Green is always a significant event, and this one, surveying fairy beliefs in the Middle Ages, is set to become the work of first recourse on the subject. It is scholarly, meticulously researched beyond the limits of all the more familiar examples, and is in many respects a profoundly revisionary account of such beliefs. It deserves to be read not just by folklorists and critics of those medieval romances in which fairies figure, but by cultural, social, and intellectual historians, theologians, and historians of witchcraft." * Speculum *"Elf Queens and Holy Friars is a lucid, rich and engrossing book. Green sustains his case for the contingency and variety of medieval fairy beliefs, while also making a coherent and compelling argument about medieval clerical approaches to such beliefs. The study is likely to become a staple of reading lists across a number of areas of literary and cultural history; however, its appeal should extend well beyond the academy. Elf Queens and Holy Friars is a deeply learned book, but it wears that learning lightly; there is much here for readers new to this field to enjoy, not least the sheer entertainment value of many medieval fairy accounts." * Literature & History *"Although I have brushed up against suggestions of fairy lore and activity many times in the materials with which I work, I have taken them for granted up to now, which also means I did not think very hard about them. Reading this book has illuminated a large expanse of material much more deeply and intimately than I imagined possible." * Claire Fanger, Rice University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Believing in Fairies Chapter 2. Policing Vernacular Belief Chapter 3. Incubi Fairies Chapter 4. Christ the Changeling Chapter 5. Living in Fairyland Postscript Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Conversion and Narrative Reading and Religious
Book SynopsisSzpiech draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing.Trade Review"In this book Ryan Szpiech has brought us a cogently argued, rigorously researched, and thoughtfully constructed theory of conversion narrative in the Middle Ages. His overall argument is compellingly simple: individual narratives of conversion are as much about the histories of religions as they are about the histories of individuals. . . . Szpiech demonstrates this thesis in a series of rigorous, close readings of conversion narratives written by Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an impressive range of languages." * Speculum *"This wide-ranging, erudite study brings a welcome new perspective to the subject of medieval interfaith polemics. . . . Szpiech's impressive analytical and linguistic skills have allowed him to produce a work of singular value, which will undoubtedly open up new lines of research for the future." * Catholic Historical Review *"Szpiech's insightful reading of a variety of conversion narratives produced within the Abrahamic religions between the ninth and the sixteenth century has produced this densely textured and important book which launches the study of conversion into new territory." * The Medieval Review *"A remarkably learned, ambitious, and important study. Conversion and Narrative will make a signal contribution to medieval studies in general, but more particularly to literary studies, intellectual history, and religious studies." * Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee *"This impressive book bridges the fields of religious studies and comparative literature in order to produce close and sophisticated readings of conversion narratives from the later Middle Ages across a broad array of languages (Latin, Castilian/Catalan, Arabic, and Hebrew). Very few scholars can move so gracefully among these languages and areas of scholarship while offering insights from the minutiae of philological analysis to high literary theory, reflections on the nature of religion, and notions of the self." * Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University *Table of ContentsNote on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration Introduction: Conversion and History 1. From Peripety to Prose: Tracing the Pauline and Augustinian Paradigms 2. Alterity and Auctoritas: Reason and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Authority 3. In the Shadow of the Khazars: Narrating the Conversion to Judaism 4. A War of Words: Translating Authority in Thirteenth-Century Polemic 5. The Jargon of Authenticity: Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid and the Paradox of Testimony 6. The Supersessionist Imperative: Islam and the Historical Drama of Revelation Conclusion: Polemic as Narrative Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Fordham University Press Form and Foreskin Medieval Narratives of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. The Gospel According to the Foreskin | 11 2. Saint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin | 32 3. Nicking Sir Gawain | 50 4. The Foreskin of Marriage | 82 Coda | 103 Acknowledgments | 109 Notes | 111 Index | 151
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Foxes Book of Martyrs
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Kregel Publications,U.S. John Through Old Testament Eyes A Background and
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Eusebius
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David C Cook Publishing Company Through the Desert Includes
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Colin Smythe Ltd The Prophecies of St Malachy and St Columbkille
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Anthroposophic Press Inc Turning Points in History
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Cambridge University Press Children in New Religious Movements
Book SynopsisThis Element examines several aspects of children growing up in new religions. It focuses on child upbringing, the function of children in the groups, and parental perspectives and styles. It also considers issues of physical and emotional abuse, state interventions, and the impact of second- and third generations of children in new religions.
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard on Self Ethics and Religion
Book SynopsisKierkegaard's thought is more relevant than ever to contemporary debates about the self, truth, ethics, and religion. This study explains how to make sense of controversial ideas in Kierkegaard's work, such as wholeheartedness, subjective truth, 'the leap' into faith and 'the teleological suspension of the ethical'.Trade Review'Professor Fremstedal conducts a compelling reconstruction of how Kierkegaard develops wholeheartedness based on his views of moral psychology, metaethics, and the ethics of religious belief … This monograph provides unique understanding and reliable resources, tackling some controversial issues, and is a timely reference worthy of being read by researchers interested in the study of Kierkegaard and his outstanding cognitive philosophy on selfhood, ethics, and religion.' Chuandai Qiao, Dialog A Journal of Theology'While this book will serve as an indispensable resource for contemporary Kierkegaard scholarship, it also has something to offer for ongoing conversations about Kant, German Romanticism, Idealism, ethics, religious epistemology, and Kierkegaard's subsequent relevance to these areas. In this way, Fremstedal has done a tremendous service to Kierkegaard scholarship by re-presenting him as a figure worthy of immediate consideration across multiple subdisciplines of philosophical and theological inquiry and scholarship.' Charles Duke, Journal for Continental Philosophy of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Self, Despair and Wholeheartedness: 1. Selfhood and anthropology; 2. Why be moral? The critique of amoralism; 3. Moral inescapability: Moral agency and meta-ethics; Part II. Morality, Prudence and Religion: 4. The critique of eudaimonism: Virtue ethics, kantianism and beyond; 5. Non-eudaimonistic ethics and religion: Happiness and salvation; 6. The 'Teleological suspension of the ethical' and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac; 7. Moralized religion: The identity of the good and the divine; Part III. 'Subjectivity, Inwardness, is Truth': 8. 'Hidden inwardness' and humor: Kantian ethics and religion; 9. Subjective truth: 'Kierkegaard's most notorious…claim'; Part IV. Faith and Reason: 10. A leap of faith? The use of lessing, Jacobi and Kant; 11. Faith neither absurd nor irrational: The neglected reply to Eiríksson; 12. Faith beyond reason: Supra-rationalism and anti-rationalism; 13. The ethics of belief: Fideism and pragmatism; Conclusion; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger
Book SynopsisJoseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, fundamentally shaped Christian theology in the 20th and early 21st centuries. This book surveys the major themes and topics that Ratzinger explored, and highlights aspects of the ideas that he developed in his engagement with a wide variety of intellectual and religious currents.Table of ContentsPart I. Life and Context: 1. Influences Jacob Phillips; 2. Interlocutors Nicholas J. Healy; 3. The second Vatican council and the third millennium Christopher Ruddy; Part II. Main Theme: 4. Logos and reason Pablo Blanco-Sarto; 5. Revelation Rudolf Voderholzer; 6. Scripture and tradition Matthew J. Ramage; 7. The fathers of the church José Granados; 8. God and the trinity Thomas Joseph White; 9. Creation Michael Dominic Taylor; 10. Jesus Christ Emery de Gaál; 11. Ecclesiology Maximilian Heim; 12. The Priesthood Sara Butler; 13. Liturgy Uwe Michael Lang; 14. Canon law James Bradley; 15. Eschatology Helmut Hoping; 16. Modernity and secularism Tracey Rowland; 17. Preaching Daniel Cardó; 18. The theological virtues Peter John McGregor; Part III. Dialogue and Perspectives: 19. Dialogue with orthodoxy and protestantism Kurt Cardinal Koch; 20. Dialogue with judaism and with religions Achim Buckenmaier; 21. General reception and perspectives Thomas G. Weinandy.
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Cambridge University Press Resetting the Origins of Christianity
Book SynopsisThe author boldly challenges understandings of one of the most momentous social and religious movements in history, as well as its reception over time and place. Provides novel ways of reading well-known major historians (Gregory of Tours, Orosius, Eusebius a.o.) and key texts (Irenaeus, Seneca- Paul letters, NT Gospels, Ignatius).Trade Review'… bold and provocative … There is a great deal to enjoy in Vinzent's panorama of Christian history writing from the sixth century backwards, and it is always worth allowing one's assumptions to be challenged and entertaining a new perspective.' Teresa Morgan, The Tablet'Recommended.' G. M. Smith, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The Romans, Christ, and Paul; 2. 'The older, the better': Eusebius of Caesarea and his construction of early Christian beginnings; 3. The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian; 4. Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament; 5. The Twelve Apostles – the Praxapostolos, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Acts of the Apostles; 6. Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters; Outlook: How did it really happen?; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Transcendental Meditation Movement
Book SynopsisThis Element provides a comprehensive overview of the Transcendental Meditation and examines the movement's history, beginning in India in 1955, and concludes with an analysis of the splinter groups that have come along in the past twenty-five years.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Very Beginning of TM; 2. Maharishi Multiplies Himself; 3. Maharishi Embraces the Love Generation; 4. Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress; 5. TM on Trial; 6. A Taste of Utopia and a Return to the Vedas; 7. Gurus who Broke from Maharishi; 8. Deepak Chopra and Maharishi Ayur Veda; 9. Suspicious Science and Trouble in Paradise; 10. After Maharishi; Bibliography; Acknowledgments.
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge Faith and Early Christian Initiation
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Cambridge University Press Mormonism
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Cambridge University Press Origen on Demonic Executioners and the Problem of Evil
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Cambridge University Press Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
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Cambridge University Press Abuse in New Religious Movements
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Taylor & Francis Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete historical contexts, religions, and cultures found within the premodern period. The contributions connect thinkers from antiquity through the Middle Ages and include philosophers from the three major monotheistic faithsJudaism, Islam, and Christianity.By emphasizing premodern philosophy's shared textual roots in antiquity, particularly the writings of Plato and Aristotle, the volume highlights points of cross-pollination between different schools, cultures, and moments in premodern thought. Approaching the complex history of the premodern world in an accessible way, the editors organize the volume so as to underscore the difficulties the premodern period poses for scholars, while accentuating the fascinating interplay between the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin philosophical traditions. The contributors cover many topics rangi
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Taylor & Francis Secularization Social Order and World History
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Cambridge University Press English Convents in Catholic Europe c.16001800
Book SynopsisHighlighting the significance of the English convents in exile as part of, and contributors to, national and European Catholic culture, James E. Kelly situates the English Catholic experience within the wider context of the Catholic Reformation and Catholic Europe, and thus transforms our understanding of the convents.Trade Review'Many contemporaries regarded enclosed convents as major spiritual, intellectual and even ideological statements about the nature of true religion. In the context of the changes of religion in England from the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the setting up of English convents in exile was a serious public intervention in the post-Reformation Church. This book draws on an impressive array of archival sources about these convents, and comprehensively and authoritatively reinstates them in the modern-day historiography of the British and European Reformation and Counter-Reformation.' Michael Questier, Research Chair, University of Vanderbilt, Nashville'This important contribution to the study of the Early Modern English Catholic diaspora, shows how the English convents established on the continent were not inward-looking institutions, but were fully engaged with the latest Counter-Reformation ideas and practices. The book gives a wide-ranging account of the convents in their first two centuries by focusing on how the nuns created a collective identity in exile.' Christopher Highley, Ohio State University'Here is a work that reads the English convents as they understood themselves. That is as all-female communities at the heart of European Catholic reformation, as nuns on mission for England and for the world. Their rich world of cloisters, kin, song, prayer, money, and networking is beautifully reconstructed and interrogated in this essential and original volume.' John McCafferty, University College Dublin'This broad-ranging study testifies to its author's in-depth knowledge of conventual archives … Its treatment of complex issues allies nuance and clarity, and those qualities contribute to making this monograph a great read.' Laurence Lux-Sterritt, British Catholic History'Kelly is to be congratulated for restoring the religious dimension to the discussion.' Thomas M. McCoog, Journal of Jesuit Studies'… Kelly's book is an outstanding and well-researched analysis which has finally shed light on a world which has not been properly understood and examined. One of the many merits of this book is to have described the rich array of details on the entrant nuns, their family background, the organization of the journey to mainland Europe, and their life inside the convent.' Matteo Binasco, Studi irlandesi'Kelly has convincingly demonstrated the need to situate English Catholic convents firmly within their wider European context and recognise them as particularly vigorous expressions of Tridentine Catholicism. His book will therefore be of great interest not only to scholars of early modern English Catholicism, but also to historians of the European Counter-Reformation more broadly …' Frederick E. Smith, English Historical Review'English Convents in Catholic Europe is a landmark monograph in several ways. Impeccably written and deeply researched, this magisterial work will set the standard for a dynamic field that is still largely in its infancy.' Jaime Goodrich, Early Modern Women'… Kelly offers a meaningful contribution to the study of the early modern English convents and their relationship to the Catholic Reformation-one that will guide and sustain future research into these communities and the nuns who entered them.' Jenna Lay, Church History'… it is essential that academia be reminded periodically that social activism or national sentiment does not explain why they abandoned so much for the cloister. Convents were more than a haven for more confessionally mobile English Catholics. Kelly is to be congratulated for restoring the religious dimension to the discussion.' Thomas M. McCoog, Journal of Jesuit Studies'[Kelly] is an engaging writer and uses a wide array of sources, including letters, obituary books, accounts, and spiritual treatises, to powerfully evoke the quotidian experiences of these women.' Colleen M. Seguin, American Historical Review'… This is an excellent survey based on close reading of the recent literature, which opens up new questions about the lives of these resilient and redoubtable women who contributed significantly to post-Reformation English and European Catholicism.' William Sheils, Journal of Ecclesiastical History'… an impressive study … The book provides a fascinating window into the collective experience of nearly four thousand English nuns in the period of the Catholic Reformation … [it] provides an important answer to anyone wondering what happened to the long tradition of English monasticism, and especially of convents, after the Dissolution.' Genelle Gertz, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Recruitment: familial and clerical patronage; 2. Embracing enclosure; 3. Material religious culture; 4. Financing the conventual movement; 5. Liturgical life: relics and martyrdom; 6. Networked: the convents and the world of Catholic exile; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Introduction to Medieval Theology
Book SynopsisThis classic book, now in a second, expanded edition, is an invitation to think along with major theologians and spiritual authors, men and women from the time of St Augustine to the end of the fourteenth century, who profoundly challenge our (post-)modern assumptions. Medieval theology was radically theocentric, Trinitarian, Scriptural, and sacramental, yet it also operated with a rich notion of human understanding. In a post-modern setting, when modern views on ''autonomous reason'' are increasingly questioned, it is fruitful to re-engage with pre-modern thinkers who did not share our modern and post-modern presuppositions. Their different perspective does not antiquate their thought; on the contrary, it makes them profoundly challenging and enriching for theology today. This survey introduces readers to key theologians of the period and explores themes of the relationship between faith and reason; the mystery of the Trinity; soteriology; Christian love; and the transcendent thrust oTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. The Legacy of the Fathers: 2. Augustine of Hippo; 3. Monks and scholars in the fifth and sixth centuries: John Cassian, Boethius and Pseudo-Dioysius; Part II. Early Medieval Theologians: 4. Gregory the Great; 5. John Scottus Eriugena and the Carolingian renaissance; Part III. The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: 6. Introduction: renewal in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; 7. Anselm of Canterbury; 8. Monks and scholars in the twelfth century: Peter Abelard, William of St. Thierry and Bernard of Clairvaux; 9. Hugh of St. Victor; 10. Richard of St. Victor; 11. Hildegard of Bingen; 12. Peter Lombard and the systematization of theology; Part IV. The Thirteenth Century: 13. Introduction: Mendicant orders, universities and Islamic scholarship; 14. Two beguines: Mecthild of Magdeburg and Hadewijch of Antwerp; 15. Early Franciscan theology: Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and the Summa Halensis; 16. Bonaventure; 17. Albert the Great; 18. Thomas Aquinas; 19. The Condemnations of 1277; 20. John Duns Scotus; Part V. The Fourteenth Century and Beyond: 21. Upheavals and pluralism in the fourteenth century; 22. William of Ockham; 23. Meister Eckhart; 24. Jan van Ruusbroec and the modern devotion; 25. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Slow Fall of Babel
Book SynopsisExplores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity as the increasingly Christianized elites discovered the existence of multiple other languages in the world and attempted to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.Table of Contents1. Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity; 2. Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity; 3. The Tower of Babel and Beyond: Primordial Linguistic Situation, Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification; 4. Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity; 5. Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness; 6. The Languages of Saints and Demons.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Rise of Western Christendom
Book SynopsisThis tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity s first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography.Trade Review"Summing Up. Highly recommended. Especially libraries that lack the second edition; lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Revised Edition xi Preface to the Second Edition xlviii Introduction 1 Part I Empire and Aftermath: A.D. 200–500 35 1 “The Laws of Countries”: Prologue and Overview 37 2 Christianity and Empire 54 3 Tempora Christiana: Christian Times 72 4 Virtutes sanctorum . . . strages gentium: “Deeds of Saints . . . Slaughter of Nations” 93 5 On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia 123 Part II Divergent Legacies: A.D. 500–600 143 6 Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours 145 7 Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome 166 8 Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great 190 Part III The End of Ancient Christianity: A.D. 600–750 217 9 Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe 219 10 The Making of a Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland 232 11 Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus 248 12 Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam 267 13 “The Changing of the Kingdoms”: Christians under Islam 295 14 Christianities of the North: Ireland 321 15 Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain 340 16 Micro-Christendoms 355 Part IV New Christendoms: A.D. 750–1000 381 17 The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy 383 18 The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany 408 19 “To Rule the Christian People”: Charlemagne 434 20 In geār dagum, “In Days of Yore”: Northern Christendom and its Past 464 Notes 490 Coordinated Chronological Tables 573 Bibliography 578 Primary Sources 578 Secondary Sources 589 Index 632
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparing Christianities
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking introductory textbook for the study of the New Testament and the first Christians, written for the next generation of students Comparing Christianities: An Introduction to the New Testament and the First Christians maps the historical rise of Christianity out of a network of early Christian movements. This major new textbook systematically explores the struggles to define the faith by presenting Christianity as the result of a lengthy process of religious consolidation which emerged from a landscape of persistent Christian diversity. The book delves into the history of the first five generations of Christians, from Paul to Origen. The first chapter considers the challenges of constructing Christian histories and offers a new model of Christian families to organize and explain the emergence and competition of different varieties of Christianity. Each successive chapter focuses on key issues that Christian leaders engaged over the centuriesTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Sectarian Jews 1 2 A New Religion 27 3 Early Gnostic Churches 49 4 The Church of the Martyrs 81 5 Early Christian Philosophical Movements 103 6 The Universal Church 131 7 Holiness Movements in Asia and Syria 157 8 The Expansion of Gnostic Churches 183 9 The Construction of Orthodoxy 207 10 Church Reform 231 11 The Mystical Church 257 12 A Family History 283 Glossary of Terms 327 Index 339
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