An Introduction to Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780521454452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 456 str.

Linda Woodhead

Opis

Focusing on the ways in which Christianity has understood, embodied and related to power, Linda Woodhead examines the key figures, events and ideas spanning over two thousand years of Christian history. Woodhead considers the religion in its material as well as its spiritual dimensions and explores its interactions with society through money, politics, force, gender and the family, as well as non-Christian cultures and societies.

Recenzje

'['Introduction to Christianity'] literature endures … in two social locations: the academic textbook market for religious studies and Christian theological education as well as trade book expeditions into current public discussions of religion. Woodhead attends to both settings. … [She] devotes greatest time and energy to gradations between the polarities. Her forte is dealing with compromised, mixed, muddled and - better still - unintended, even ironic, social relations that Christians form with worldly principalities and powers. This approach makes hers a more refreshingly candid, nuanced handling of Christian history than most textbooks. … this book is of immense practical benefit … Exceptional strengths are Woodhead's skill in (re)incorporating women's history into the overall story and her ability to sift through and sort out the last half-century of Christianity's history.' Scottish Journal of Theology

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Christian Revolution: Ascent to Power: 1. How Christianity came to power; 2. Churches of east and west in the early middle ages; 3. Christendom: the western church in power; Part II. The Modern Revolution: Compromises with Power: 4. The Reformation in context; 5. Protestant pathways into the modern world; 6. Catholic and orthodox negotiations with modernity; 7. Twentieth-century fortunes; Conclusion.