The idea of reform
Subtitle: its impact on Christian thought and the action in the age of the Fathers
By: Gerhart B. Ladner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
Subjects: Early church; Church renewal; History; History of doctrines; Doctrinal Theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Varieties of renewal ideology and the Christian idea of reform; title: pt. 2. The early Christian idea of reform; title: Pre-Christian, Biblical, and patristic terminology of renewal and reform; title: The Pauline idea of reform and related scriptural concepts; title: The idea of reform in Greek Christian thought of the patristic period; title: The idea of reform in Latin patristic thought before St. Augustine; title: St Augustine and the difference between the reform ideas of the Christian East and West; title: The idea of reform in Early Christian canon law and sacramental theology; title: pt. 3. Monasticism as a vehicle of the Christian idea of reform in the age of the Fathers; title: Monasticism; title: Monks, priests, conversi; title: The transmission of Augustinian monasticism to early Medieval Europe.