A History of the Christian Church
Author | : Williston Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Williston Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publisher | : Zondervan Academic |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310516579 |
Church History, Volume One offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and grew from its development in the days of Jesus to the years leading up to the Reformation. Looking closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church, Church History paints a portrait of God's people within its setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. FEATURES: Maps, charts, and illustrations spanning the time from the first through the thirteenth centuries. Overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish worlds and how they developed or declined. Insights into the church's relationship to the Roman Empire, with glimpses into pagan attitudes toward Christians. Explanations of the role of art, architecture, literature, and philosophy—both sacred and secular—in the Church. Details on the major theological controversies of the periods. Each chapter also contains callout passages from Scripture to assist in understanding the narrative of the Church, even to the present day, as part of the greater narrative of the Bible. AUTHOR'S PERSPECTIVE: Scholar and writer Everett Ferguson wrote this history of the church from the perspective that such a history is the story of the greatest movement and community the world has known. It's a human story of a divinely called people who wanted to live by a divine revelation. It's a story of how they succeeded and how they failed or fell short of their calling. From the Apostle Paul to the apologists and martyrs of the second century to Martin Luther, the historical figures detailed are people who have struggled with the meaning of the greatest event in history—the coming of the Son of God—and with their role in that event and in the lives of God's people.
Author | : Simonetta Carr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781601788566 |
God always intended to have a people to love: a church Jesus said nothing could destroy (Matthew 16:18). Simonetta shows how God has kept this promise for two thousand years.
Author | : Carter Godwin Woodson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Chadwick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780880290777 |
Chadwickʹs Early Church covers, as the book cover suggests, "the story of emergent Christianity from the apostolic age to the dividing of the ways between the Greek East and the Latin West." The story unfolds with the Jewish and Roman background within which the beginning church was nourished. It then goes on to show how important it is for the church to establish order and unity amidst threats of persecution and heresy. The emergence of apologists helps not only the expansion of the church but also the construction of Christian doctrine. At the same time, controversies abound as the church encountered many different cultural and sociological challenges while trying out in reaction a variety of ideas. With chapter seven, the relation between church and state changes, resulting in a stronger influence of the state upon the church while accelerating the split between the Latin West and the Greek East. The Arian controversy shows a period of instability between state and church, and also deepens the split of East and West. But within the turmoil, ascetic practice, papacy, liturgy, and art are established, helping to transmit a common European culture while the Roman Empire begins to degenerate.
Author | : Dr. Justo L. Gonzalez |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1426722249 |
One of the chief difficulties in studying the history of Christianity is the lack of prior exposure to the subject that students often bring with them. Struggling to keep up with the large numbers of names, dates, and places presented to them, it is easy for students to lose sight of the "big picture," the broad sweep of movement and change that instructors most wish to communicate. Justo Gonzalez has written this book to help students gain just such a quick and basic grasp of the main periods and issues in the history of Christianity. Drawing upon his own extensive experience and that of others, he contends that having been introduced to the essentials of church history in a brief and accessible form, students are far better able to understand and appreciate what they encounter in more detailed lectures and reading. Gonzalez provides a comprehensive opening chapter that summarizes major issues and concerns of each of the principal eras of church history. Subsequent chapters focus on the ancient church, the Christian empire, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, and the twentieth century and the end of modernity.
Author | : Michael Hollerich |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520295366 |
Known as the “Father of Church History,” Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity’s early development, from its origin in Judaism, through two and a half centuries of illegality and occasional persecution, to a new era of tolerance and favor under the Emperor Constantine. In this book, Michael J. Hollerich recovers the reception of this text across time. As he shows, Eusebius adapted classical historical writing for a new “nation,” the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision. Eusebius’s text left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period—across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundaries—until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebius’s vast influence throughout history, not simply in shaping Christian culture but also when falling under scrutiny as that culture has been reevaluated, reformed, and resisted over the past 1,700 years.
Author | : Rev. Fr. John Laux M.A. |
Publisher | : TAN Books |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1505105862 |
From the beginning to 1940. Written for both students and adults. The author intersperses the history with many brief, interesting biographies of famous people, and at the end of each chapter he quotes briefly from a famous writing of the era, blending a medley of elements into a comprehensive historical composition that is at once brilliant and fascinating. A story of the Church unparalleled in its scope, depth, variety and impact, and a book all Catholics should read.
Author | : Bruce Leon Shelley |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : 9780849938610 |
Traces the history of the Church, focusing on the motivations of its founders, conflicts, key figures, and defining events over the centuries.
Author | : Christopher M. Bellitto |
Publisher | : 101 |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780764816031 |
Early church - Medieval church - Reformation church -Modern church.