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The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000

Author : Hugh McLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139438158
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 written by Hugh McLeod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since 1960 this process has spectacularly accelerated. In this 2003 book, historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries answer two central questions: what is the religious condition of Western Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, and how and why did Christendom decline? Beginning by overviewing the more recent situation, the authors then go back into the past, tracing the course of events in England, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and showing how the fate of Christendom is reflected in changing attitudes to death and to technology, and in the evolution of religious language. They reveal a pattern more complex and ambiguous than many of the conventional narratives will admit.

The Fall of the Church

Author : Roger Haydon Mitchell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162032928X
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Church written by Roger Haydon Mitchell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book prepares the way for the practice of kenarchy: a humanity-loving, world-embracing, inclusive approach to life and politics. It does so by identifying two conflicting streams in Christianity: the love stream that the stories of Jesus portray and many of us desire to follow, and the sovereignty system that much of theology, church, and mission represents. Explaining how the two streams arose in early Western history, The Fall of the Church demonstrates that far from being complementary expressions of Christianity, the sovereignty stream embodies the very system that the Jesus of the gospels opposed. The fall of the church is described in terms of its embrace of the sovereignty system and the subsequent history of the West is explained as the story of the resulting partnership. If transcendence is truly like Jesus, then, rather than abandoning the empire system, God has remained within the church and empire in order to empty it out from the inside. Mitchell argues that this divine strategy has continued throughout the history of the West and is coming to a head, right now, in our contemporary Western world, and that the time is ripe for an incarnational politics of love.

The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland

Author : Crawford Gribben
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198868189
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland written by Crawford Gribben and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of saints and scholars'. Yet the Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history, Christianity in Ireland has lurched from crisis to crisis. Surviving the hostility of earlier religious cultures and the depredations of Vikings, evolving in the face of Gregorian reformation in the 11th and 12th centuries and more radical protestant renewal from the 16th century, Christianity has shaped in foundational ways how the Irish have understood themselves and their place in the world. And the Irish have shaped Christianity, too. Their churches have staffed some of the religion's most important institutions and developed some of its most popular ideas. But the Irish church, like the island, is divided. After 1922, a border marked out two jurisdictions with competing religious politics. The southern state turned to the Catholic church to shape its social mores, until it emerged from an experience of sudden-onset secularization to become one of the most progressive nations in Europe. The northern state moved more slowly beyond the protestant culture of its principal institutions, but in a similar direction of travel. In 2021, fifteen hundred years on from the birth of Saint Columba, Christian Ireland appears to be vanishing. But its critics need not relax any more than believers ought to despair. After the failure of several varieties of religious nationalism, what looks like irredeemable failure might actually be a second chance. In the ruins of the church, new Columbas and Patricks shape the rise of another Christian Ireland.

The Fall of Christendom

Author : W. B. Bartlett
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445684187
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Christendom written by W. B. Bartlett and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic Muslim victory over the Crusaders that finally ended the Christian dream of ruling the Middle East.

The History of the Fall and Dissolution of Christendom

Author : James Edmond Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Fall and Dissolution of Christendom written by James Edmond Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fall of Christendom and the Rise of the Church

Author : P. Pikkert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789758379224
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Christendom and the Rise of the Church written by P. Pikkert and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Through the Eye of a Needle

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844533
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Through the Eye of a Needle written by Peter Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

The End of Christendom

Author : Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher : Wipf and Stock
ISBN 13 : 9781592442713
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The End of Christendom written by Malcolm Muggeridge and published by Wipf and Stock. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christendom

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241215927
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Christendom written by Peter Heather and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times 'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review 'A page-turner' The Spectator In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance. In exploring how the Christian religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a small sect of isolated congregations was transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both so-called 'heresies' and other forms of belief. From the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention and willingness to mobilize well-directed force. Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.

The Darkening Age

Author : Catherine Nixey
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544800931
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The Darkening Age written by Catherine Nixey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

History of Christianity in the Middle Ages

Author : William Ragsdale Cannon
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Christianity in the Middle Ages written by William Ragsdale Cannon and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1960 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of Division

Author : John Strickland
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781944967864
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Division written by John Strickland and published by Ancient Faith Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever wondered exactly how we got from the Christian society of the early centuries, united in its faithfulness to apostolic tradition, to the fragmented and secular state of the West today, The Age of Division will answer all your questions and more. In this second of a four-volume cultural history of Christendom, author John Strickland applies insights from the Orthodox Church to trace the decline and disintegration of both East and West after the momentous but often neglected Great Schism. For five centuries, a divided Christendom was led further and further from the culture of paradise that defined its first millennium, resulting in the Protestant Reformation and the secularization that defines our society today.

The Division of Christendom

Author : Hans Joachim Hillerbrand
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0664224024
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The Division of Christendom written by Hans Joachim Hillerbrand and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InThe Division of Christendom, revered historian Hans J. Hillerbrand details the events and ideas of the sixteenth century and contends that the Protestant Reformation must be seen as an interplay of religious, political, and economic forces in which religion played a major role. Hillerbrand tells the fascinating story of the ways in which theological disagreements divided the centuries-old Christian church and the roles that leading characters such as Luther, Zwingli, Anabaptists, and Calvin played in establishing new churches, even as Roman Catholicism continued to develop in its own ways. The book covers all significant aspects of this period and interprets these important events in their own context while reflecting on the consequences of the Reformation for later periods and for today.

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

Author : Andrew Dickson White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom written by Andrew Dickson White and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics

Author : Andrew Willard Jones
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645851249
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics written by Andrew Willard Jones and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing narrative of human history, given to us as children and reinforced constantly through our culture, is the plot of progress. As the narrative goes, we progressed from tyranny to freedom, from superstition to science, from poverty to wealth, from darkness to enlightenment. This is modernity’s origin myth. Out of it, a consensus has emerged: part of human progress is the overcoming of religion, in particular Christianity, and that the world itself is fundamentally secular. In The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics, Andrew Willard Jones rewrites the political history of the West with a new plot, a plot in which Christianity is true, in which human history is Church history. The Two Cities moves through the rise and fall of empires; cycles of corruption and reform; the rise and fall of Christendom; the emergence of new political forms, such as the modern state, and new political ideologies, such as liberalism and socialism; through the horrible destruction of modern warfare; and on to the plight of contemporary Christians. These movements of history are all considered in light of their orientation toward or away from God. The Two Cities advances a theory of Christian politics that is both an explanation of secular politics and a proposal for Christians seeking to navigate today’s most urgent political questions.

The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity

Author : Douglas John Hall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579109845
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity written by Douglas John Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is that the Christian movement can indeed have a significant future - one that will be faithful to the original vision of the movement and of immense service to our beleaguered world. But to have that future, Christians will have to stop trying to have the kind of future that sixteen centuries of official Christianity in the Western world has conditioned them to covet. Douglas John Hall examines the decline and fall of Christendom and looks at ecclesiastical responses to the end of Christendom. He proposes that the churches make their disestablishment work for good and describes how the Christian movement might serve dominant societies, classes, and institutions in a post-Christian era.

The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church

Author : S. G. F. Brandon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608997472
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church written by S. G. F. Brandon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What lies between the authoritative preeminence of the Mother Church of Jerusalem and the virtual extinction both of its life and apparently of all its local records? Dr. Brandon finds that the full significance of the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 has been strangely neglected amongst scholars. In this original and exhaustive study he shows that this catastrophic event was of profound importance not only for the development of early Christianity but possibly also for its very survival. Besides an ordered survey of other ancient historians, this book demonstrates an extensive study of New Testament origins, and many will find special interest in the light it throws upon the origin and purpose of canonical works. This book faces serious problems of New Testament study that have generally been too easily dismissed, and it makes a definite and original contribution towards their solution.