Denis Janz argues that the encounter with Marxism has been the defining event for twentieth century Christianity. No other worldview shook Christianity more dramatically and no other movement had as profound an impact on so many. Now the Cold War is over and as we approach the end of the century we need, Janz says, to ask ourselves what happened. This book is the first unified and comprehensive attempt to analyze this historic meeting between these two antagonistic worlds of thought and action. The intellectual foundation of this antagonism is to be found in Karl Marx himself, and thus...
Denis Janz argues that the encounter with Marxism has been the defining event for twentieth century Christianity. No other worldview shook Christianit...
This volume in the Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology series provides a compact and lucid treatment of the main elements of the theology of Martin Luther (1483-1546). Janz, a top Luther expert, discusses the theological understandings that made Luther a leading figure in the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation. This splendid guide will serve as a welcome reference for careful and accurate descriptions of the key components of Luther's theology.
The Westminster Handbook to Christian Theology series provides a set of resources for the study of historic and contemporary...
This volume in the Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology series provides a compact and lucid treatment of the main elements of the theology o...
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. Now, the essential material from that important project is available for classroom use.Each volume contains careful selections and abridgements of the original content organized to fit ideally into a two semester course in Christian history. It provides a valuable overview on such topics as birth and death, baptism rites, food, power, heresy, and more. Students are...
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 C...
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. Now, the essential material from that important project is available for classroom use.Each volume contains careful selections and abridgements of the original content organized to fit ideally into a two semester course in Christian history. It provides a valuable overview on such topics as birth and death, baptism rites, food, power, heresy, and more. Students are...
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 C...
The seven volume A People's History of Christianity has been celebrated for raising awareness of the way in which lay Christians have lived throughout more than 20 centuries of Christian History.By adopting a people's history approach, over 100 contributors turned their attention to the lives of people that history as it is usually told forgets - women, the economically distressed, the politically marginalized, and others - and brought their thoughts on life, death, childhood, marriage, and faith to the forefront.For the first time, the essential material from that important project is...
The seven volume A People's History of Christianity has been celebrated for raising awareness of the way in which lay Christians have lived throughout...
