Interpreting Christian History: The Challenge of the Churches' Past - Couverture souple

Cameron, Euan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0631215239 ISBN 13 : 9780631215233

Editeur : WB, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Cameron Euan

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"This book is an excellent summary of Christian history from the apostolic period to the current day and is written in an engaging way. It will be profitably used by scholars and students in all Christian traditions and is a helpful text not only for introductory seminary church history or historical theology courses, but also for historiography in university graduate courses."
History and Sociology of Religion

"Expert historians are not always as good at self–reflecting on their craft at practicing that craft. Euan Cameron, however, is an exemption as shown by his careful assessment of what the historians of this and previous generations have both taken for granted and spelled out explicitly in writing the history of Christianity. As one might expect from a distinguished student of the sixteenth century, Interpreting Christian History is particularly good on what the rise of Protestantism meant for understanding the Christian past." Mark Noll, Wheaton College

Quatrième de couverture :

For 2,000 years the Christian churches have developed, disagreed with each other, and divided into separate and often hostile factions. This book, written by a distinguished Church historian, explores the theological lessons to be learnt from this difficult history.

The author identifies a recurring historic tendency to identify the Christian life with one or another specific means to holiness, such as ascetic discipline, martyrdom, or the cult of the Eucharist. He examines how historians of Christianity gradually came to terms with the idea that the Church could change, and even lapse into serious error. He also shows how historical perspective has played a key role in many of the most important theologies of the past 100 years. The book concludes that a living Christianity is never absolutely timeless, and that we can only ever perceive a facet of its total revelation, conditioned as we are by our own historical and cultural context.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WB
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0631215239
• ISBN 13: 9780631215233
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306