The Spirit Of Early Christian Thought
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Author | : Robert Louis Wilken |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300127561 |
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Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to reforms and is getting worse. This analysis of the causes underlying the crisis seeks to offer concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession.
Author | : Robert Louis Wilken |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300105988 |
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Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken (the author of The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity) chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. He provides an introduction to early Christian thought on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, and shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
Author | : Robert Louis Wilken |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300097085 |
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An elegant and learned introduction to the giants of Christian antiquity, this book shows how the Church can live by continually pondering the word of God.
Author | : Maurice Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780521099158 |
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Extracts from the writings of the Early Christian fathers, covering the main areas of Christian thought.
Author | : Robert Louis Wilken |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300060836 |
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Drawing on both primary texts and archaelogy, Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins inthe Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century.
Author | : Chris L. de Wet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131551303X |
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This volume examines the prevalence, function, and socio-political effects of slavery discourse in the major theological formulations of the late third to early fifth centuries AD, arguably the most formative period of early Christian doctrine. The question the book poses is this: in what way did the Christian theologians of the third, fourth, and early fifth centuries appropriate the discourse of slavery in their theological formulations, and what could the effect of this appropriation have been for actual physical slaves? This fascinating study is crucial reading for anyone with an interest in early Christianity or Late Antiquity, and slavery more generally.
Author | : William G. Rusch |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1980-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 145142020X |
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This volume explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the patristic church as a result of the Arian controversy: Arius -- Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia Arius -- Letter to Alexander of Alexandria Alexander of Alexandria -- Letter to Alexander of Thessalonica The Synodal Letter of the Council of Antioch, A.D. 325 The Creed of the Synod of Nicaea (June 19, 325) The Canons of Nicaea, A.D. 325 Eusebius of Caesarea -- Letter to His Church concerning the Synod at Nicaea Arius -- Letter to the Emperor Constantine Athanasius -- Orations against the Arians, Book 1 Gregory of Nazianzus -- Third Theological Oration concerning the Son Gregory of Nyssa -- Concerning We Should Think of Saying That There Are Not Three Gods to Ablabius Augustine of Hippo -- On the Trinity, Book 9
Author | : Karlfried Froehlich |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780800614140 |
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Covers the emergence of hermeneutical questions in the patristic period.
Author | : Robert L. Wilken |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592449123 |
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Unlike most studies of the thought of the early Church, which have concentrated on the Christian encounter with Hellenism, this investigation of the writings of Cyril of Alexandria reveals the crucial influence of the polemical conflicts with Judaism voiced by the early fathers. After tracing the relationships between Christians and Jews during the first four centuries A.D., Mr. Wilken demonstrates how Cyril's exegetical writings - two-thirds of the extant corpus - grew directly out of his polemical positions. He then discusses the influence of such thinking on Cyril's christology and on his controversy with Nestorius, the bishop of Constantinople during the early fifth century. His concluding analysis of the larger problem of Christian attitudes toward the Jews concentrates on the difficulties raised by the Christians' inability to understand Judaism as anything other than an inferior foreshadowing of Christianity.
Author | : Mark Edwards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2019-03-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1315520192 |
Download Aristotle and Early Christian Thought Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In studies of early Christian thought, ‘philosophy’ is often a synonym for ‘Platonism’, or at most for ‘Platonism and Stoicism’. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophy. Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great theological topics – creation, the soul, the Trinity, and Christology – it makes full use of modern scholarship on the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles, and it follows their application of these principles to matters which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself. This volume offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.