The Birth Of Christianity
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Author |
: Joel Carmichael |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015014750288 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of Christianity by : Joel Carmichael
This challenging study reassesses the roles of Jesus and Paul as the founders of Christianity, in light of the contemporary Kingdom of God agitations against Rome.
Author |
: John Dominic Crossan |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 692 |
Release |
: 1999-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0567086682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780567086686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Birth of Christianity by : John Dominic Crossan
John Dominic Crossan explores the lost years of earliest Christianity, the years immediately following Jesus' execution. He establishes the contextual setting through a combination of literary, anthropological, historical and archaeological approaches. He challenges the assumptions about the role of Paul and the meaning of resurrection, and forges a new understanding of the birth of the Christian church. Here is a vivid account of early Christianity's interaction with the world around it, and of the new traditions and communities established as Jesus' companions continued their movement after his death.
Author |
: Rodney Stark |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1997-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060677015 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060677015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of Christianity by : Rodney Stark
This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly), this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence, and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews—and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago).
Author |
: Paul Barnett |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2005-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802827810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802827814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of Christianity by : Paul Barnett
Barnett's work is not so much a narrative of the "birth" and early years of Christianity as an argument that this birth can be documented by the usual methods of historical inquiry.
Author |
: Paul Barnett |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2002-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0830826998 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780830826995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity by : Paul Barnett
Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within the world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducee and revolutionaries, but argues that the mainspring and driving force of early Christian history is the historical Jesus.
Author |
: Jennifer Scheper Hughes |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2021-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479802555 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479802557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Church of the Dead by : Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history that is at once groundbreaking and lyrical.
Author |
: Odd Magne Bakke |
Publisher |
: Fortress Press |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 1451415303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781451415308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Children Became People by : Odd Magne Bakke
Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first real emergence as people against a backdrop of the ancient world.Using theological and social history research, Bakke compares Greco-Roman and Christian attitudes toward abortion and child prostitution, pedagogy and moral upbringing, and the involvement of children in liturgy and church life. He also assesses Christian attitudes toward children in the church's developing doctrinal commitments.Today, growing numbers of children are impoverished, exploited, abandoned, orphaned, or killed. Bakke's insightful work begins to untangle the roots of their complex plight.
Author |
: Bernard Green |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2010-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780567032508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0567032507 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity in Ancient Rome by : Bernard Green
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Author |
: Marcus J. Borg |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061743641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 006174364X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Christmas by : Marcus J. Borg
“Who could argue with the message the authors draw from the Bible’s Christmas stories? Light in the darkest time of the year, hope in a period of creeping despair—these are powerful and universal themes that can give everyone a stake in Christmas.” —USA Today In The First Christmas Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan—top Jesus scholars and authors of The Last Week—help us see the real Christmas story buried in the familiar Bible accounts. Basing their interpretations on the two nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Borg and Crossan focus on the literal story—the inner truth rather than the historical facts—to offer a clear and uplifting message of hope and peace. With The First Christmas readers get a fresh, deep, and new understanding of the nativity story, enabling us to better appreciate the powerful message of the Gospels.
Author |
: Walter Ziffer |
Publisher |
: Author House |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2006-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781467816229 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1467816221 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix of Judaism by : Walter Ziffer
The book presents the essential information necessary for understanding how Christianity developed from being a Jewish sect to becoming an independent religion. While religious differences played an important role in the separation of Jews and Christians in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, there were also political, social and economic factors at work that contributed to the parting of the ways of these two groups. An effort was made to keep technical jargon to a minimum in this work. Thus we have here a book that is easily understood and yet scientifically sound. Footnotes should help steer the interested reader toward more specialized treatments of this or that sub-theme. In the end it is hoped that the book will be a stepping stone toward a more respectful and creative partnership between Christians and Jews in the neverending task of tikkun olam, the healing of our ailing world.