{"product_id":"christianity-9781118465653","title":"Christianity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow available in a fully-revised and updated new edition, this popular textbook by one of the world's leading theologians offers a lively, jargon-free introduction to Christianity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations and Maps xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Jesus of Nazareth and the Origins of Christianity 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of Jesus of Nazareth for Christianity 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sources of Our Knowledge about Jesus of Nazareth 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus of Nazareth in His Jewish Context 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gospels and Jesus of Nazareth 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth of Jesus of Nazareth 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Early Ministry of Jesus of Nazareth 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Teaching of Jesus of Nazareth: The Parables of the Kingdom 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvents and Meanings: The Interpretation of the History of Jesus 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Testament Understandings of the Significance of Jesus 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus of Nazareth and Women 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reception of Jesus of Nazareth outside Judaism 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Christian Bible 28\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Old Testament 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMajor Themes of the Old Testament 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe creation 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbraham: Calling and covenant 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe exodus and the giving of the Law 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe establishment of the monarchy 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe priesthood 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProphecy 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExile and restoration 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Testament 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe gospels 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Testament letters 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fixing of the New Testament canon 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Understanding of the Relation of the Old and New Testaments 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Translation of the Bible 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bible and Tradition 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Christian Creeds and Beliefs 54\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Creeds 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Faith? 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFaith and reason 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan God’s existence be proved? 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Understanding of God 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian analogies for God 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod as Father 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA personal God 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod as almighty 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod as spirit 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe doctrine of the Trinity 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod as the creator 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Understanding of Humanity 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumanity and the “image of God” 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumanity, the fall, and sin 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus of Nazareth 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Christian approaches to the identity of Jesus of Nazareth 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arian controversy and the incarnation 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe incarnation: The Chalcedonian definition 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus of Nazareth as mediator between God and humanity 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslamic criticisms of the Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Understanding of Salvation 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Testament images of salvation 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist the victor: The defeat of death and sin 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist the harrower of hell: Atonement as restoration 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist the redeemer: Atonement as satisfaction 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe death of Christ as a perfect sacrifice 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist the lover: Atonement and the enkindling of love 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSalvation and the “threefold office of Christ” 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrace 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pelagian controversy of the fifth century 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation debates of the sixteenth century 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Church 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe unity of the church 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe holiness of the church 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe catholicity of the church 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe apostolicity of the church 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sacraments 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is a sacrament? 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe function of sacraments 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDebates about baptism 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDebates about the eucharist 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Hope 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Testament and Christian hope 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nature of the resurrection body 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian burial or cremation? 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Christian History: An Overview 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Early Church, c. 100–c. 500 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe apostolic age 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Christianity and the Roman empire 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Christian worship and organization 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen and early Christianity 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe conversion of the Emperor Constantine 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe cities and the rise of monasticism 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fall of the Roman empire 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c. 500–c. 1500 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe development of Celtic Christianity 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rise of the monastic and cathedral schools 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “Great Schism” between East and West (1054) 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crusades: Spain and the Middle East 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcademic theology: The rise of scholasticism 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecular and religious power in the Middle Ages 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular religion: The cult of the saints 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rise of the Ottoman empire: The fall of Constantinople (1453) 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rebirth of western culture: The Renaissance 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompeting Visions of Reform, c. 1500–c. 1650 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian expansion: Portuguese and Spanish voyages of discovery 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lutheran Reformation 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Calvinist Reformation 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Reformation (Anabaptism) 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Reformation 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation in England 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Council of Trent 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Society of Jesus 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wars of Religion 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePuritanism in England and America 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Protestant religion of the heart: Pietism 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Protestantism and the Great Awakening 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modern Period, c. 1650–1914 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rise of indifference to religion in Europe 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment: The rise of rationalism 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity in the American Revolution 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChurch and state in America: The “wall of separation” 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe French Revolution and “dechristianization” 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrthodox resurgence: The Greek War of Independence 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new expansion of Christianity: The age of mission 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe shifting fortunes of Catholicism 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Vatican Council: Papal infallibility 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheological revisionism: The challenge of modernism 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Victorian crisis of faith 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePentecostalism: The American origins of a global faith 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Twentieth Century, 1914 to the Present 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Armenian genocide of 1915 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Russian Revolution of 1917 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerica: The fundamentalist controversy 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe German church crisis of the 1930s 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 1960s: The emergence of a post-Christian Europe 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Second Vatican Council: Reform and revitalization 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity and the American Civil Rights Movement 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFaith renewed: John Paul II and the collapse of the Soviet Union 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenging the church’s establishment: Feminism and liberation theology 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity beyond the West: The globalization of faith 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Denominations: Contemporary Forms of Christianity 199\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholicism 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEastern Orthodoxy 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProtestantism 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglicanism 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Baptists 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLutheranism 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodism 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresbyterianism and other reformed denominations 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePentecostalism 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvangelicalism 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ecumenical Movement and the World Council of Churches 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Erosion of Protestant Denominationalism in the United States 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Life of Faith: Christianity as a Living Reality 220\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGateways to Exploring the Life of Faith 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Communities: The Life of the Church 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian weddings 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian funerals 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Service of Nine Lessons and Carols 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Worship 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrayer 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe public reading of the Bible 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreaching 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reciting of the creeds 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sacraments 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaptism 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe eucharist 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhythms and Seasons: The Christian Year 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvent 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristmas 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpiphany 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLent 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoly Week 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEaster 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAscension 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePentecost 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinity 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structuring of Time: The Monastic Day 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structuring of Space: Pilgrimage and the Christian Life 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Christianity and the Shaping of Culture 251\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity and Culture: General Considerations 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Symbolism: The Cross 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Art 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIcons 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChurch Architecture 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStained Glass 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Music 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity and Literature 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity and the Natural Sciences 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Where Next? 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