A people's history of Christianity
By: Denis R. Janz, editor
Edition: One volume student edition
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781451470536
Subjects: History; Christian life; Laity; Church history
Description: This one-volume edition contains careful selections and abridgments of the original content and covers the entire scope of church history. It provides a valuable overview of such topics as birth and death, marriage and family life, baptism rites, food power, heresy, and more. Students are both informed and inspired by seeing the importance of ordinary Christians in shaping Christianity across time.
Table of contents: title: Jesus movements and the renewal of Israel / Richard A. Horsley; title: Food, ritual, and power / Andrew McGowan; title: The practice of Christianity in Byzantium / Derek Krueger; title: Medieval revivalism / Gary Dickson; title: Reforming from below / Peter Matheson; title: The dream of a just society / James M. Stayer; title: Expansion and change / Amanda Porterfield; title: New ways of confronting death / Carlos Eire; title: Multiplicity and ambiguity / Mary Farrell Bednarowski; title: Gender and twentieth-century Christianity / Margaret Bendroth; title: Pentecostal transformation in Latin America / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán.