Cameron Interpreting Christian History

The Challenge of the Churches' Past
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4541-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, E-Book

This book explores the theological lessons to be learnt from 2000years of Christian Church history.
* An exploration of the theological lessons to be learnt from thedifficult history of the Christian churches over the past 2,000years
* Opens with an introductory essay on the whole of Churchhistory, making the book suitable for lay readers as well asstudents
* Combines historical, historiographical and theologicalanalysis
* Reunites the disciplines of theology and Church history
* Concludes that we can only ever perceive a facet ofChristianity given our historical and cultural conditioning
* Written by a distinguished Church historian.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cameron, Euan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Introduction.
Diversities of Belief, Practice, and Priorities.
History and Diversity.
Steering Between Two Extremes.
The Compass and Structure of the Book.
History and Theory.
1 The Unfolding of Christian History: a Sketch.
Christianity: a Jewish Heresy Spreads Across the EasternEmpire.
Greek and Latin, East and West.
Persecution, Legal Establishment, Empowerment, and Retreat.
The Eastern Church, the Spread of Islam, and ExpansionNorthwards.
The Western Church of Late Antiquity and the Early MiddleAges.
Disputes over Control, and the Rise of a Continental Church.
The High Medieval Synthesis.
Later Middle Ages: the Era of Fragmentation.
Challenges and Ruptures: Renaissance and Reformation.
The Age of Competing Orthodoxies.
Challenges to Orthodoxy: Reason, Enlightenment, andRevolution.
The Era of Romanticism and its Implications.
The Multiple Crises of the Twentieth Century.
Reflecting on the Process of Historical Development.
2 Constantly Shifting Emphases in Christian History.
Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals.
Asceticism: Giving Things Up for God.
Expecting Miracles.
Martyrdom.
Sacrament and Sacrifice: the Eucharistic Church.
The Company of Heaven: the Communion of Saints.
Purity of Doctrine and Instruction: the School of Faith.
The Christian Community and its Membership.
Reflections on Shifting Priorities.
3 Church Historians' Responses to Change andDiversity.
The Early Church: Eusebius of Caesarea.
Early Medieval Church History: Bede.
The High Middle Ages: A Monastic Chronicle.
Renaissance Historiography: Rhetoric and Skepticism.
The Reformation and the Rise of a Sense of History.
The Rise of Reformed Schools of Church History.
Confessional Histories in the Age of Orthodoxy.
Writing Christian History in the Shadow of theEnlightenment.
Toward "Modern" Histories of Christianity.
Postmodern and Liberation-oriented Approaches to ChristianHistory.
Summary and Conclusions.
4 Some Theologians Reflect on the Historical Problem.
The Historical Background to Historical-critical Theology.
The Challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to "Modernizing"Theology.
German Liberal Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth andTwentieth Century.
Responses to Liberalism in the Twentieth Century.
Thomism, Mysticism, and Neo-liberalism: Some Roman CatholicResponses.
Cultural Diversity, Liberation, Postliberalism, andPostmodernity.
Drawing the Threads Together.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Euan Cameron is Academic Dean and Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York; and Professor in the Department of Religion of Columbia University. He was previously Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His recent publications include The European Reformation (1991), Early Modern Europe (1999), and Waldenses (Blackwell, 2000).