Interpreting Christian history
Subtitle: the challenge of the churches' past
By: Euan Cameron.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780631215226; 9780631215233
Subjects: Church history.; History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: The unfolding of Christian history : a sketch; title: Christianity : a Jewish heresy spreads across the Eastern Empire; title: Greek and Latin, east and west; title: Persecution, legal establishment, empowerment and retreat; title: The Eastern church, the spread of Islam, and expansion northwards; title: The Western church of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; title: Disputes over control, and the rise of a continental church; title: The high medieval synthesis; title: Later Middle Ages : the era of fragmentation; title: Challenges and ruptures : Renaissance and Reformation; title: The age of competing orthodoxies; title: Challenges to orthodoxy : reason, enlightenment and revolution; title: The era of Romanticism and its implications; title: The multiple crises of the twentieth century; title: Reflecting on the process of historical development; title: Constantly shifting emphases in Christian history; title: Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals; title: Asceticism : giving things up for God; title: Expecting miracles; title: Martyrdom; title: Sacrament and sacrifice : the Eucharistic church; title: The company of heaven : the communion of saints; title: Purity of doctrine and instruction : the school of faith; title: The Christian community and its membership; title: Reflections on shifting priorities; title: Church historians' responses to change and diversity; title: The early church : Eusebius of Caesarea; title: Early medieval church history : Bede; title: The high middle ages : a monastic chronicle; title: Renaissance historiography : rhetoric and scepticism; title: The Reformation and the rise of a sense of history; title: The rise of reformed schools of church history; title: Confessional histories in the age of orthodoxy; title: Writing Christian history in the shadow of the Enlightenment; title: Toward "modern" histories of Christianity; title: Postmodern and liberation-oriented approaches to Christian history; title: Summary and conclusions; title: Some theologians reflect on the historical problem; title: The historical background to historical-critical theology; title: The challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to modernizing theology; title: German liberal Protestant theology of the ineteenth and twentieth centuries; title: Responses to liberalism in the 20th century; title: Thomism, mysticism and neo-liberalism : some Roman Catholic responses; title: Cultural diversity, liberation, postliberalism and postmodernity; title: Drawing the threads together.