Ralph Keen

The Christian Tradition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Christian Tradition, formerly published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, introduces students at the beginning of the third millennium to a religion that has evolved over and shaped two previous millennia. With particular focus placed on the social and cultural background to this tradition, the text provides a stimulating survey of the history of Christianity from its Jewish roots to the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century. This innovative text weaves a consideration of the arts, spirituality, religious life and practice-especially among the laity, women, and others outside the dominant institutional tradition-into its rich historical narrative, and offers a comprehensive and diverse view of the course of Christian history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780742564596
• Artikelnr.: 38220124

Autorenporträt

Ralph Keen is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Iowa. Professor Keen received his doctorate in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Emergence of Christianity
Chapter 2 Judaism in Various Forms: An Ambivalent Inheritance
Chapter 3 Literature of the Early Church: Texts as Preservers of Experience
Chapter 4 Roman Power and Religion: Divine Destinies in Conflict
Chapter 5 Worship in the Early Church: A Case Study in Adaptation
Part 6 The Christian Religion in Late Antiquity
Chapter 7 The Emergence of Hierarchy: Papal Beginnings
Chapter 8 The Flourishing of Liturgy: Devotion Through Ritual and Imagery
Chapter 9 The Monastic Microcosm: The Benedictine Norm and Reform
Chapter 10 The Expansion of the Church: First Missionary Movements and the
Crusades
Part 11 Medieval Western Christian Culture
Chapter 12 Carolingian Culture and Religion: A Medieval Renaissance
Chapter 13 Scholasticism: From Anselm to Aquinas
Chapter 14 The Church and the Law: The Investiture Controversy
Chapter 15 The Mendicant Orders and Lay Movements: New Forms of Religious
Life
Chapter 16 Scholasticism and Salvation: The Sacramental System
Chapter 17 Spirituality and Mystical Experience: Medieval Mystics
Part 18 From Medieval to Modern, from One Church, Many
Chapter 19 Launching the Reformation: Martin Luther's Revolution
Chapter 20 Development of the Reformation: The Spread of Protestantism
Chapter 21 Protestant Orthodoxy: Developments in Scholasticism
Chapter 22 Reformation-Era Catholicism: Reaction and New Religious Orders
Chapter 23 The Challenge of Rationalism: Skepticism and Faith in the 17th
Century
Chapter 24 Early American Religion: Between Reformation and Enlightenment
Part 25 From Enlightenment to Modernity
Chapter 26 Enlightenment Religion: Adaptations in an Age of Progress
Chapter 27 The Dawn of Modern Religion: The West and its Missions
Chapter 28 Challenges to the English Church: The Oxford Movement and
Evolution
Chapter 29 Nineteenth-century America: Religious Diversity and Revivalism
Chapter 30 Roman Catholicism: Confronting the Modern World
Part 31 The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Chapter 32 Social Christianity: The Dawn of the 20th Century
Chapter 33 The Crisis of War: The Recovery of Orthodoxy
Chapter 34 Ecumenical Initiatives: The World Council of Churches and
Vatican II
Chapter 35 Mainstreams and Margins: Colonialism and Liberation Theology
Chapter 36 Christianity at the Dawn of the Third Millennium