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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Christianity, One Of The World's Great Religions, Has Had An Incalculable Impact On Human History. This Book, Now The Most Comprehensive And Up To Date Single Volume Work In English, Describes Not Onl...y The Main Ideas And Personalities Of Christian History, Its Organisation And Spirituality, But How It Has Changed Politics, Sex, And Human Society. Diarmaid Macculloch Ranges From Palestine In The First Century To India In The Third, From Damascus To China In The Seventh Century And From San Francisco To Korea In The Twentieth. He Is One Of The Most Widely Travelled Of Christian Historians And Conveys A Sense Of Place As Arrestingly As He Does The Power Of Ideas. He Presents The Development Of Christian History Differently From Any Of His Predecessors. He Shows How, After A Semblance Of Unity In Its Earliest Centuries, The Christian Church Divided During The Next 1400 Years Into Three Increasingly Distanced Parts, Of Which The Western Church Was By No Means Always The Most Important: He Observes That At The End Of The First Eight Centuries Of Christian History, Baghdad Might Have Seemed A More Likely Capital For Worldwide Christianity Than Rome. This Is The First Truly Global History Of Christianity.--from Publisher Description. Greece And Rome (c. 1000 Bce - 100 Ce) -- Israel (c. 1000 Bce - 100 Ce) -- A Crucified Messiah (4 Bce - 100 Ce) -- Boundaries Defined (50 Ce - 300) -- The Prince : Ally Or Enemy (100 - 300) -- The Imperial Church (300 - 451) -- Defying Chalcedon : Asia And Africa (451 - 622) -- Islam : The Great Realignment (622 - 1500) -- The Making Of Latin Christianity (300 - 500) -- Latin Christendom : New Frontiers (500 - 1000) -- The West : Universal Emperor Or Universal Pope? (900 - 1200) -- A Church For All People? ( 1100 - 1300) -- Faith In A New Rome (451 - 900) -- Orthodoxy : More Than An Empire (900 - 1700) -- Russia : The Third Rome (900 - 1800) -- Perspectives On The True Church (1300 - 1517) -- A House Divided (1517 - 1660) -- Rome's Renewal (1500 - 1700) -- A Worldwide Faith (1500 - 1800) -- Protestant Awakenings (1600 - 1800) -- Enlightenment : Ally Or Enemy (1492 - 1815) -- Europe Re-enchanted Or Disenchanted (1815 - 1914) -- To Make The World Protestant (1700 - 1914) -- Not Peace But A Sword (1914 - 60) -- Culture Wars (1960 - Present). Diarmaid Macculloch. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [1017]-1112).
The Reformation: A History
The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it provoked are one of the great discontinuities in European and world history. The dramatic changes that began when Martin Luther proclaimed his ninety-fiv...e theses in Wittenberg in 1517 were of a different order to anything that had gone before. In the following two hundred years, the Christian world broke apart and the nature not just of religion but also of politics, thought, society and culture all changed utterly. The course of history down to our own time has been decisively shaped by this revolution.Diarmaid MacCulloch's magnificent new history is the most authoritative and wide-ranging account of these epochal and often bloody events. He brilliantly describes the changing late medieval world into which Luther, Calvin and the other reformers erupted. He proposes an original understanding of the often confusing origins of the exceptionally violent disagreements that divided men and women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- disagreements for which they were prepared to kill and be killed. He examines the personalities of the leading Reformers and their opponents and the mix of ideas, prejudices and accidents that shaped the various versions of Protestantism and Catholicism. But this is not simply a book about popes, scholars and reformers, religious battles and secular powers. MacCulloch examines the impact of the Reformation on everyday lives -- on sex and love, on the changing sense of being a man and being a woman, on beliefs about life after death and punishment in this life, on belief in witches and ghosts. He shows the power of ideas to ruin lives and rebuild them: to bring hope, fear, hatred, anger and joy to the humblest as well as the most exalted places on the continent. Winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
beginning With The Protestant Reformation Of The Sixteenth Century, This Second Volume Of the Story Of Christianity Continues Narrative History To The Present. Historian Justo Gonzalez Brings To Life ...The People, Dramatic Events, And Shaping Ideas Of Protestantism, Catholicism, And Orthodoxy During This Period, Keynoting Crucial Theological Developments While Providing Fresh Understanding Of The Social, Political, And Economic Forces That Influenced The Formation Of The Church. In Particular, The Author Notes Recurring Themes Of Unrest, Rebellion, And Reformation.gonzalez Presents An Illuminating Record Of The Lives, Impelling Ideas, And Achievements Of Such Prominent Figures As Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, And John Calvin––movers And Shapers In The Emerging Protestant Church. His Biographical Insights, In Conjunction With Vivid Historical Accounts, Reveal How Individual Lives Mirror And Clarify Core Theological Concerns And Developments.the Interpretive Overview Of the Story Of Christianity Includes A Thorough And Timely Analysis Of The Growth And Maturation Of Christianity, Including Events In Europe, The United States, And Latin America––the Latter An Area Too Often Neglected In Church Histories, Yet Increasingly Vital To An Understanding Of Christianity's Historical Development, Present Situation, And Future, Options.gonzalez's Richly Textured Study Discusses The Changes And Directions Of The Church In The Traditions Of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, And Eastern Christianity. the Story Of Christianity Covers Such Recent Occurrences As The World Council Of Churches, The Second Vatican Council, The Movement Toward Christian Unity, And Much More. It Concludes With A Thoughtful Look At The Major Issues And Debates Involving Christians Today.
The Unquenchable Flame: Introducing The Reformation
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The Reformation (The Story of Civilization #6)
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The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World
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Rescuing the Gospel: The Story and Significance of the Reformation
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Theology of the Reformers
'Theology Of The Reformers' will intrigue and inform all those who are concerned both with the church in the time of the Reformation and the church in the modern era. Timothy George is Dean at Beeson ...Divinity School, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also editor, together with his wife Denise, of the Library of Baptist Classics series. He previously was an associate professor of church history and historical theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction
The Reformation was a seismic event in European history, one which left an indelible mark on the modern world. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Marshall illuminates the causes and consequences o...f this pivotal movement in western Christianity. The Reformation began as an argument about what Christians needed to do to be saved, but rapidly engulfed society in a series of fundamental changes. This book provides a lively and up-to-date guide that explains doctrinal debates in a clear and non-technical way, but also explores the effects the Reformation had on politics, society, art, and minorities. Marshall argues that the Reformation was not a solely European phenomenon, but that varieties of faith exported from Europe transformed Christianity into a truly world religion. The complex legacy of the Reformation is also assessed. Its religious fervor produced remarkable stories of sanctity and heroism, and some extraordinary artistic achievements. But violence, holy war, and martyrdom were equally its products. A paradox of the Reformation—that it intensified intolerance while establishing pluralism—is one we still wrestle with today.
The Protestant Reformation (Documentary History of Western Civilization)
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