Category: Church History

By Daniel H. Shubin

From Apostle Andrew to the belief of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin offers the total heritage of Christianity in Russia in a 3-volume sequence. The occasions, humans and politics that cast the earliest traditions of Russian Christianity are offered objectively and intensively, describing the increase and dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the numerous dissenters and sectarian teams that developed over the centuries (and their persecution), the presence of Catholicism and the inflow of Protestantism and Judaism and different minority religions into Russia. The background covers the better degrees of ecclesiastical job together with the involvement of tsars and princes, in addition to saints and serfs, and priests and mystics. This, the 1st quantity, bargains with the interval from Apostle Andrew to the demise of Tsar Ivan the negative, simply ahead of the election of the 1st Russian Patriarch, a interval of just about 1600 years.

By Etan Diamond

Who has time for neighborhood within the sleek city? the reply may well shock you: it sounds as if plenty of us. As this ebook discusses, spiritual groups have lengthy been an incredible method for individuals in all elements of the trendy urban to come back jointly. no matter if in new suburban subdivisions, in rural parts present process switch, or in inner-city neighborhoods, humans of all social backgrounds, races, and financial ability have used their congregations which will set down new roots and to carry directly to previous ones. targeting Indianapolis, Indiana, a urban in America's geographical and cultural heartland, Souls of town describes the variety of adjustments to America's towns and American faith over the past many years of the twentieth century. In exhibiting the historic skill of non secular congregations to develop into "places" of worship, this booklet demanding situations those that lament the soulless nature of recent metropolitan existence.

By Edwin D. Craun

The overdue medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, particularly those that had strength to self-discipline in Church and country: clergymen, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. this tradition, during which the injured celebration needed to confront the wrong-doer at once and privately, was once referred to as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing suggested Christians to make this corrective technique powerful by way of fending off slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his fans accelerated this verified perform to authorize their very own polemics opposed to mendicants and clerical wealth. ultimately, he lines how significant English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The ebook of Margery Kempe - extended the perform to justify their protests, to guard themselves from repressive components within the overdue Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and nation, and to induce their readers to mount potent protests opposed to spiritual, social, and political abuses.

By Karen Metzler

In an in depth account (probably relationship from 1170-1175), the archbishop and popular student takes his priests seriously to job, for in his eyes they fall a long way wanting the beliefs they professed of their monastic vows, relatively via undertaking enterprise and being adverse to schooling and studying. With its Prolegomena, editorial paintings, and indexes, this re-creation is a invaluable resource for Byzantinists. the amount additionally offers a German translation of the Greek textual content.

By Jean-Louis Chrétien

The Ark of Speech investigates the interaction of speech and silence within the discussion among God and people, and humans and the realm. starting from the previous testomony and its depiction of God's artistic be aware to the hot testomony and its specialize in the lifestyles and phrases of Jesus because the notice of the daddy, the ebook indicates how vital it really is for the believer to hear God and to others in silence and devotion.

By William C. Piercy, Henry Wace

Become aware of crucial, trustworthy info on over 800 Christian personalities, teams, and literature to the top of the 6th century A.D. during this detailed, concise quantity. It contains descriptions of the central sects and heresies that challenged orthodox Christianity on a number of fronts in the course of the early years. A remarkably finished paintings, this quantity developed from the prestigious four-volume Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature. For a person interested by the early church and the folks who made indelible marks in its tale, this can be a primary resource.

• good points trustworthy sketches of significant Christian personalities of the 1st six centuries. • Analyzes the files, creeds, and literature of the early church and its rivals. • Describes the crucial sects and heretics of early Christianity, together with discussions of the theological trends of those rivals. • Covers greater than six hundred years of church background in a single handy quantity.

By Gale Group

Others.< P>In addition to the loads of latest signed articles on a wide selection of issues, this re-creation additionally positive aspects biographies of latest non secular figures; millions of photos, maps and illustrations; and up-to-date bibliographical citations. The fifteenth quantity is a cumulative index to the total encyclopedia.

By Frances Andrews

This e-book is the 1st significant learn in English of a bunch of overdue twelfth-century spiritual fanatics, the early Humiliati, who have been condemned via the Church as heretics in 1184 but--in a awesome transition--were reconciled seventeen years later and went directly to identify a hugely profitable non secular order in northern Italy. utilizing a variety of assets, the character of the early circulate and its methods of institutional improvement are reconstructed. The booklet additionally incorporates a Bullarium Humiliatorum, a listing of papal and episcopal letters and privileges.

By F. Gerald Downing

Articulate first century Mediterranean society, Jewish and Christian incorporated, expressly favoured harmonious order in society, in members, in conversation, and in inspiration. Its universal foundation was once the patriarchal relatives, the guideline of legislation, rational strength of will, and rational inspiration. but there has been additionally resistance to oppressive and unjust order in all spheres; and whereas legislation should be held educative, but there have been colossal first century reviews of legislations, not only Paul’s, and understanding that judicial techniques will be chaotic and biassed. Strands of such dissidence look in Jesus and in Paul, with major relevance for any knowing of the early Christian movement(s) and modern Judaism(s) in Graeco-Roman context, but additionally with very important implications for any functional reflections and alertness.

By Robert Scribner, Roy Porter, Mikulas Teich

This number of essays explores the event of spiritual reform in "national context." In discussing similarities and alterations one of the reform events in a dozen eu nations, the publication considers international locations within which the Reformation used to be strikingly profitable and people the place it did not make an impression. the person essays emphasize the neighborhood preconditions and obstacles that the Reformation encountered because it unfold from Germany into lots of the nations of western and important Europe. jointly they current an image of the many-sided nature of the Reformation because it grew up in each one "national context."