Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - History

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.

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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 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...

Theology is perhaps the most serious study in the world. That is, it was. Now I have spoiled everything with this marvelous and unfathomably fantastic little book. In it, you’ll laugh, or at least smirk violently through the crazy history of the Christian way of thinking about things. There are pictures and jokes and awful puns and outrageous facts and truly wonderful things to learn about—things only theology people usually know. But now you can too! Theology has never been so easy!

Theology is perhaps the most serious study in the world. That is, it was. Now I have spoiled everything with this marvelous and unfathomably fantastic little book. In it, you’ll laugh, or at least smirk violently through the crazy history of the Christian way of thinking about things. There are pictures and jokes and awful puns and outrageous facts and truly wonderful things to learn about—things only theology people usually know. But now you can too! Theology has never been so easy!

This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic exchange from the Roman Empire as a basis for their new theological arguments. Monetary metaphors and images, including the minting of coins and debt slavery, provided frameworks for theologians to explain what happens in salvation. God became an economic administrator, for instance, and...