Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century--Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen--produced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline of the soul which are playing a more seminal role in Christian theology today that at any time in the last four hundred years. Too often, however, their teachings are appropriated in a piecemeal manner, with no acknowledgement of their mutual interdependence.
In this comprehensive...
Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century--Basil of Caesarea, Gre...
The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to imagine what Christianity might have been. Without this time of consolidation and increasing conformity, Europe would not have existed as we now know it—nor, for that matter, would Islam.
It is one of Whitworth’s merits to show that the great doctrinal formulae which we owe...
The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political hist...
The period covered by this book (AD 381-451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to imagine what Christianity might have been. Without this time of consolidation and increasing conformity, Europe would not have existed as we now know it--nor, for that matter, would Islam.
It is one of Whitworth's merits to show that the great doctrinal formulae which we owe to this epoch...
The period covered by this book (AD 381-451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. F...
