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A People's History of Christianity

By: Denis R. Janz

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A People's History of Christianity

By: Denis R. Janz

On its release, the seven volume A Peoples History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available for classroom use. Each volume contains careful s

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World Christianity and Marxism

By: Denis R. Janz

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World Christianity and Marxism

By: Denis R. Janz

Denis Janz argues that the encounter with Marxism has been the defining event for twentieth century Christianity. No other worldview shook Christianity more dramatically and no other movement had as profound an impact on so many. Now the Cold War is over and as we approach the end of the century we need, Janz says, to ask ourselves what happened. This book is the first unified and comprehensive attempt to analyze this historic meeting between these two antagonistic worlds of thought and action. The intellectual foundation of this antagonism is to be found in Karl Marx himself, and thus the book begins with an account of Marx's assault on Christianity. All the diverse philosophical and political manifestations of Marxism were ultimately rooted in Marx's thought, and supporters based their greater or lesser hostilities toward Christianity on their reading of his critique. Janz follows this with an overview of Christian responses to Marx, extending from the mid-19th century to the onset of the Cold War. He argues that within this time frame Christianity's negation of Marx was not absolute; the loud "no" to Marx bore with it an important, if muted, "yes." With this intellectual groundwork in place, Janz turns to an examination of the encounter as it unfolded in specific national contexts: the United States, the Soviet Union, Poland, Nicaragua, Cuba, China, and Albania. The experiences of these countries varied widely, from Poland where Christianity maintained its strongest independence, to Nicaragua where a Christian alliance with Marxism contributed to revolutionary change, to Albania where a Stalinist government attempted to abolish religion entirely. From this survey emerges the evidence that world Christianity has clearly internalized some of the prominent features of its antagonist, suggesting that the "Marxist project" is not as utterly defunct as many have assumed.

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Oxford University Press

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0195353234

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Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

A Study in Theological Anthropology

By: Denis R. Janz

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Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

A Study in Theological Anthropology

By: Denis R. Janz

A careful analysis of Luther’s thought in the context of his age, this volume examines Luther’s links with later medieval Thomism. The study is organized on the theme of theological anthropology—the state of humans within a theological system. In the course of the discussion, Janz studies parallels and divergences between the thought of Luther and the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Peter Lombard, John Capreolus, Henry of Gorkum, Conrad Koellin, Karlstadt, and Cajetan. Janz suggests that at some crucial points late medieval Thomist teaching misrepresents the teaching of Thomas Aquinas. This, compounding Luther’s lack of direct knowledge of Thomas, helps to explain Luther’s opposition not only to his own nominalist teachers but to the scholastics generally. Students of late medieval and Reformation theology will find the wealth of primary citation and the detailed readings of the sources invaluable guides to the issues. Students of religion interested in contemporary problems in theological anthropology, in the natural capacity of humanity for good and evil, for example, will find the historical Christian perspective of great interest.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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155458714X

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Luther's The Church Held Captive in Babylon

Latin-English Edition, with a New Translation and Introduction

By: Denis Janz

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Luther's The Church Held Captive in Babylon

Latin-English Edition, with a New Translation and Introduction

By: Denis Janz

In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in "reforming" the Roman church. In October, he published The Church Held Captive, and by December the deepest theological rationale appeared in The Freedom of a Christian. With these three books, the relatively unknown Friar Martin exploded onto the Western European literary and religious scene. These three works have been universally acknowledged as classics of the Reformation, and of the Western religious tradition in general. Though Reformation scholars have been reluctant to single out one as the most important of the three, Denis Janz proposes a bold case for The Church Held Captive. In the first entirely new translation in more than a century, Janz presents Luther's text as it hasn't been read in English before. Previous translations stifle the original text by dulling the sharpest edges of its argumentation and tame Luther by substituting euphemisms for his vulgarities. In Janz's dual language edition we see the provocative, offensive, and extreme restored. In his wide-ranging introduction, Janz offers much-needed context to clarify the role of The Church Held Captive in Luther's life and the life of the Reformation. This edition is the most reader-friendly scholarly version of Luther's classic in the English language.

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Oxford University Press

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0199359547

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Mauritius on the Spice Route, 1598-1810

By: Denis Piat

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Mauritius on the Spice Route, 1598-1810

By: Denis Piat

This is the engrossing story of Mauritius, the exotic Indian Ocean island port of call at the heart of the fabled "Spice Route". Although first discovered and visited by the Arabs and the Portuguese, and subsequently colonised by the Dutch, the French and the English, it is the French influence that is most keenly felt in Mauritius today, thanks to France's nearly century-long rule over Mauritius from 1715 to 1810. Combining rich historical detail, rare archival documents, antique lithographs paintings, and portraits, and fascinating stories of well-known figures of the period - like the founder of the colony Governor Mahé de La Bourdonnais, the explorer and botanist Pierre Poivre, and the celebrated explorer Jean- François de Lapérouse - Mauritius on the Spice Route is an invitation to step back in time and discover the fascinating history of this exotic paradise.

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Editions Didier Millet

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9814260312

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Mental Health Nursing

Competencies for Practice

By: Stephan D. Kirby,Denis Hart,Dennis Cross

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Mental Health Nursing

Competencies for Practice

By: Stephan D. Kirby,Denis Hart,Dennis Cross

Pre-registration nurse training across the UK is now competency based and this is the first mental health nursing text devoted to this approach. It explores the practical application of a competency based Exit Profile for mental health nursing students, which ensures that there is consistency in the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes that mental health nursing students will acquire by the end of their training programmes. This timely and contemporary text will be an essential resource for all Mental Health Branch nursing students.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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140399756X

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Christian Understandings of Creation

The Historical Trajectory

By: Denis Edwards

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Christian Understandings of Creation

The Historical Trajectory

By: Denis Edwards

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs?

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Fortress Press

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1506438350

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Passion for History

Conversations with Denis Crouzet

By: Natalie Zemon Davis,Denis Crouzet

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Passion for History

Conversations with Denis Crouzet

By: Natalie Zemon Davis,Denis Crouzet

The pathbreaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence, and archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis brings to life a dazzling cast of extraordinary people, revealing their thoughts, emotions, and choices in the world in which they lived. Thanks to Davis we can meet the impostor Arnaud du Tilh in her classic, The Return of Martin Guerre, follow three remarkable lives in Women on the Margins, and journey alongside a traveler and scholar in Trickster Travels as he moves between the Muslim and Christian worlds. In these conversations with Denis Crouzet, professor of history at the Sorbonne and well-known specialist on the French Wars of Religion, Natalie Zemon Davis examines the practices of history and controversies in historical method. Their discussion reveals how Davis has always pursued the thrill and joy of discovery through historical research. Her quest is influenced by growing up Jewish in the Midwest as a descendant of emigrants from Eastern Europe. She recounts how her own life as a citizen, a woman, and a scholar compels her to ceaselessly examine and transcend received opinions and certitudes. Davis reminds the reader of the broad possibilities to be found by studying the lives of those who came before us, and teaches us how to give voice to what was once silent.

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Penn State Press

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0271091290

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World Christianity and Marxism

By: Denis Janz

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World Christianity and Marxism

By: Denis Janz

All the diverse philosophical and political manifestations of Marxism were ultimately rooted in Marx's thought, and supporters based their greater or lesser hostilities toward Christianity on their reading of his critique. Janz follows this with an overview of Christian responses to Marx, extending from the mid-19th century to the onset of the Cold War.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195119444

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Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

A Study in Theological Anthropology

By: Denis R. Janz

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A Study in Theological Anthropology

By: Denis R. Janz

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A People's History of Christianity

By: Denis R. Janz

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A People's History of Christianity

By: Denis R. Janz

This one-volume edition contains careful selections and abridgements of the original content [of the seven-volume set] and covers the entire scope of church history. It provides a valuable overview of such topics as birth and death, marriage and family life, baptism rites, food power, heresy, and more. Students are both informed and inspired by seeing the importance of ordinary Christians in shaping Christianity across time.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1451470533

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A People's History of Christianity

By: Denis R. Janz

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A People's History of Christianity

The Lived Religion of Christians in the First Two Thousand Years

By: Denis R. Janz

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The Lived Religion of Christians in the First Two Thousand Years

By: Denis R. Janz

There have been many books about bishops and kings, clerics and theologians, but what do we know about the Christian life of ordinary people across the last 2,000 years of Christian history? Very littleuntil now! Using newly developed research methods, over 100 scholars uncover the neglected side of church history as they lay bare the religious ideas and consciousness of the people - their assumptions, beliefs, values, habits, longings, terrors, anxieties, and comforts. This is history from below and the revelations in insights are fascinating. Each volume includes 10-12 essays by leading experts in the field about the lives of ordinary Christian women and men of the time. Included in each volume are over three dozen graphics and maps, an eight-page color gallery, as well as extensive bibliographies.

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Fortress Press

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0800604261

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Christian Understandings of Christ

The Historical Trajectory

By: David H. Jensen

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Christian Understandings of Christ

The Historical Trajectory

By: David H. Jensen

Seeing the contours of Christian thought about Christ Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs? The Christian Understandings series offers to help. In this insightful volume, David H. Jensen offers an engaging tour through more than two millennia of thought on Christ. Starting with the New Testament and moving forward, Jensen outlines the myriad beliefs, developments, and questions encompassing the attempts to understand Christianity's most central--and most mysterious--figure. From the patristic portrayals to medieval Christology, from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century and beyond, Jensen presents a helpful and needed guide.

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A People's History of Christianity

A People's History of Christianity

World Christianity and Marxism

World Christianity and Marxism

Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

Luther's The Church Held Captive in Babylon

Luther's The Church Held Captive in Babylon

Mauritius on the Spice Route, 1598-1810

Mauritius on the Spice Route, 1598-1810

Mental Health Nursing

Mental Health Nursing

Christian Understandings of Creation

Christian Understandings of Creation

Passion for History

Passion for History

World Christianity and Marxism

World Christianity and Marxism

Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

Luther and Late Medieval Thomism

A People's History of Christianity

A People's History of Christianity

A People's History of Christianity

A People's History of Christianity

A People's History of Christianity

A People's History of Christianity

Christian Understandings of Christ

Christian Understandings of Christ

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