{"product_id":"interpreting-christian-history-9780631215233","title":"Interpreting Christian History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the theological lessons to be learnt from 2000 years of Christian Church history. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn exploration of the theological lessons to be learnt from the difficult history of the Christian churches over the past 2,000 years\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOpens with an introductory essay on the whole of Church history, making the book suitable for lay readers as well as students\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines historical, historiographical and theological analysis\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReunites the disciplines of theology and Church history\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConcludes that we can only ever perceive a facet of Christianity given our historical and cultural conditioning\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a distinguished Church historian.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an excellent summary of Christian history from the apostolic period to the current day and is written in an engaging way. It will be profitably used by scholars and students in all Christian traditions and is a helpful text not only for introductory seminary church history or historical theology courses, but also for historiography in university graduate courses.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHistory and Sociology of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Expert historians are not always as good at self-reflecting on their craft at practicing that craft. Euan Cameron, however, is an exemption as shown by his careful assessment of what the historians of this and previous generations have both taken for granted and spelled out explicitly in writing the history of Christianity. As one might expect from a distinguished student of the sixteenth century, \u003ci\u003eInterpreting Christian History\u003c\/i\u003e is particularly good on what the rise of Protestantism meant for understanding the Christian past.\" \u003ci\u003eMark Noll, Wheaton College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversities of Belief, Practice, and Priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and Diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSteering Between Two Extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Compass and Structure of the Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Unfolding of Christian History: a Sketch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity: a Jewish Heresy Spreads Across the Eastern Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreek and Latin, East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersecution, Legal Establishment, Empowerment, and Retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Eastern Church, the Spread of Islam, and Expansion Northwards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Western Church of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisputes over Control, and the Rise of a Continental Church.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe High Medieval Synthesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLater Middle Ages: the Era of Fragmentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges and Ruptures: Renaissance and Reformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Age of Competing Orthodoxies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges to Orthodoxy: Reason, Enlightenment, and Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Era of Romanticism and its Implications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Multiple Crises of the Twentieth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReflecting on the Process of Historical Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Constantly Shifting Emphases in Christian History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeans to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsceticism: Giving Things Up for God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpecting Miracles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartyrdom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSacrament and Sacrifice: the Eucharistic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Company of Heaven: the Communion of Saints.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePurity of Doctrine and Instruction: the School of Faith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Community and its Membership.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReflections on Shifting Priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Church Historians’ Responses to Change and Diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Early Church: Eusebius of Caesarea.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Medieval Church History: Bede.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe High Middle Ages: A Monastic Chronicle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRenaissance Historiography: Rhetoric and Skepticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation and the Rise of a Sense of History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Reformed Schools of Church History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfessional Histories in the Age of Orthodoxy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting Christian History in the Shadow of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward “Modern” Histories of Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodern and Liberation-oriented Approaches to Christian History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Some Theologians Reflect on the Historical Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Background to Historical-critical Theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to “Modernizing” Theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerman Liberal Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponses to Liberalism in the Twentieth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomism, Mysticism, and Neo-liberalism: Some Roman Catholic Responses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Diversity, Liberation, Postliberalism, and Postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing the Threads Together.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403427225943,"sku":"9780631215233","price":31.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631215233.jpg?v=1730483439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interpreting-christian-history-9780631215233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}