{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-christianity-hardback-9781405110785","title":"A Brief History of Christianity (Hardback) 9781405110785","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Brief History of Christianity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarter Lindberg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405110785, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 October 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e230 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.6 x 14.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.425 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"There is much to praise here. Lindberg manages to explore many key events, issues, people and developments in a very concise manner. The text is very strong on theology and institutions with helpful historical context. I particularly appreciated the attention to Roman Catholicism as well as Protestantism in the modern period. The book is brief, but the history of Christianity is vividly portrayed here in all of its drama and complexity\u003ci\u003e.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeff Tyler, Hope College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful book: accessible, concise, clearly written, and thoroughly absorbing. Lindberg has chosen to present the Christian tradition through the history of its principal ideas, but these ideas are grounded in the flesh-and-blood reality of persons, their struggles for faith and for power, and the social and political worlds they inhabited. Reflecting the author’s erudition and wit, this cogent distillation of a complex past will serve beginners as an ideal introduction and old hands as a thought-provoking synthesis.\" \u003ci\u003eChristopher Elwood, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharting the rise and development of Christianity, Carter Lindberg has succeeded in writing a concise and compelling history of the world's largest religion. He spans over 2,000 years of colorful incident to give an authoritative history of Christianity for both the general reader and the beginning student.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRanges from the missionary journeys of the apostles to the tele-evangelism of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how the Christian community received and forged its identity from its development of the Bible to the present day.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers topics fundamental to understanding the course of Western Christianity, including the growth of the papacy, heresy and schism, reformation and counter-reformation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes an introduction to the historiography of Christianity, a note on the problems of periodization, an appendix on theological terms, and a useful bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn authoritative yet succinct history, written to appeal to a general audience as well as students of the history of Christianity.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by internationally regarded theologian, Carter Lindberg, who is the author of numerous titles on theology and Church history.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface x\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Responsibility to Remember: An Introduction to the Historiography of Christianity 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTradition and Confession 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Law of Praying is the Law of Believing 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Roman Empire and its Political Achievements 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHellenization and its Cultural Achievements 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevelopment of the Biblical Canon 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Sibling Rivalry: Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Ecumenical Councils 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structure of Tradition: Confession and Doctrine 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoctrine as a Key to Christian Memory and Identity 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeresy 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus’ Relationship to God: The Doctrine of the Trinity 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Constantinople 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus and Humankind: Christology 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Heavenly City: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Religion and Hellenism 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugustine’s Path to Conversion 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugustine’s Theological Contributions 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugustine and Donatism 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pelagian Controversy 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Development of Medieval Christendom 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMonasticism to Mission 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of the Papacy 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePapacy and Empire 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gregorian Reform 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Investiture Conflict 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crusades 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Faith in Search of Understanding: Anselm, Abelard, and the Beginnings of Scholasticism 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversities and Scholasticism 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributions of Early Scholastic Theology 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Medieval Church 84\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cultural and Theological Development of the Sacraments 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Mendicant Orders 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise and Decline of Papal Authority 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of the Papacy 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConciliarism 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContext 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation in Germany 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation in Switzerland 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation in France 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation in England 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScandinavia and Eastern Europe 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Modern Catholicism 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformations’ Aftermath 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Pietism and the Enlightenment 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Church and the Enlightenment 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Challenge and Response: The Church in the Nineteenth Century 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Churches and the French Revolution 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the French Revolution to the Congress of Vienna 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChurch Reform in Germany: The Prussian Union and its Consequences 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInner Mission and the Social Question 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePope Pius IX and Vatican I 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Kulturkampf to the Anti-Modernist Oath 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNineteenth-Century Theology 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Awakening 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheological Currents 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiberal Theology 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Christian Churches since World War I 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Formulations in Protestant Theology 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Churches during National Socialism 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevelopments in the Catholic Church after World War I 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ecumenical Movement 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBack to the Future: Christianity in Global Context 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Periodization 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlossary 189\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFurther Reading 195\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 204\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Religion \u0026amp; beliefs [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion \u0026amp; beliefs\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion%20\u0026amp;%20beliefs%20%5BHR%5D%22\"\u003eHR\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand 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