From the Early Church to the Reformation, Volume 1
On Its release, the seven volume A People's History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History.Each volume provides a valuable overview on such topics as birth and death, baptism rites, food, power, heresy
The seven volume A People's History of Christianity was lauded on release for its commitment to raising awareness of the way in which lay Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available for classroom use!
Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into English, A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome: Date Masamune's Cosmopolitan Dream presents a nuanced history of the Keicho Mission (1616-1620), a little-known embassy sent to Europe by ......
Examining the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, this book traces the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority. It explores how diverse culture and regional settings influence major disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies of the Medieval world.
Examining the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, this book traces the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority. It explores how diverse culture and regional settings influence major disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies of the Medieval world.
A Free Corrector evaluates Colin Guntons treatment of Augustines legacy on the Trinity and the doctrine of creation. Gunton claimed that Augustines work ultimately contributed to a host of problems for the Western tradition. Joshua McNall addresses this in conjunction with Guntons argument regarding Augustines afterlife. In the end, A Free ......
A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission places a range of Anglican and Episcopal eucharistic theologies in their historical contexts, paying attention to the interplay between worship, theology and mission. It then applies these considerations to possible liturgical revisions.
The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. This volume provides an analysis of Vatican II, the most decisive and far-reaching event in the modern Catholic Church.
Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement
Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this volume, the author turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story - the role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.
