Author: Geoffrey Barraclough
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ISBN: 9780500283981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This is an illustrated survey of Christianity's role in the history of European civilization. The authors, all leading scholars in their fields, have interpreted Christianity in its widest sense, emphasizing its social and cultural impact and exploring the religious life of ordinary people as well as the rituals of cardinals and kings. The book's copious illustrations form an integral part of the story and bring much that seems remote or obscure into vivid focus.
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Author: Michael Snape
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317058291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands, themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30 years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations for the first consolidated international consideration of recent themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to secularisation studies.
Author: Devin Brown
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 142674949X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Reveals the Christian elements that lie at the center of "The Hobbit," explaining how Tolkien incorporated his faith into his classic literary work.
Author: David Nash
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glimpse of blasphemy's victims. In particular, he seeks to understand why this seemingly medieval offence has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West.
Author: Herbert J. Kane
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441206582
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This volume comprises an excellent introductory survey of Christian missions from A.D. 30 to the twentieth century.
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Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Author: Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
Publisher: Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Luke 12:1, Jesus said: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” In the same breath, I say to you: “Beware of the yeast of Paul’s Christianity which is lie and hypocrisy.” All I see today are the Christians of Paul, hardly the Christians of Jesus. Where is Jesus? He is there still buried beneath the 2,000 years of lies and hypocrisies of the Christianity of Paul. If the Jews crucified the living Jesus on the cross, the Christianity of Paul murdered the risen Christ right after his resurrection. Behold the “TEN GREATEST LIES & HYPOCRISIES” that up to now are wreaking havoc in our Christian world. Happy reading!
Author: John Evans
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Author: John Evans
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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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