Christianity encapsulates its claims to authority in a book, the bible. The church's tradition is dependent on literacy: throughout its history the Christian message has been conveyed through books and other forms of writing, to provide continuity through periods of persecution, to challenge rival views, to aid processes of conversion, and asvital witnesses to the history of the Church as both a spiritual and social phenomenon. This collection of twenty-six articles by an international group of scholars offers insights into many aspects of the relationship between the church and the book, from the first appearance of Christian writings through to the twentieth century, not just in Britain and Europe, but in America, China, and India. Contributors: MARGARET ASTON, JAMES BETTLEY, RUTH CHAVASSE, MICHAEL CLANCHY, BRIAN CUMMINGS, JAMES J. DAVIS, CHRISTOPH EGGER, RICHARD EMMS, S.G. HALL, SARAH HAMILTON, ELIZABETH M. INGRAM, W. M. JACOB, G. H. JENKINS, L. LAAMANN, OLIVER M. T. LOGAN, JUDITH D. MALTBY, SCOTT H. MANDELBROTE, SUSAN MARTIN, JEREMY MORRIS, R. McKITTERICK, THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN, M. A. OVERELL, GRAHAM SHAW, ERIK SIDENVALL, NORMAN P. TANNER, SUSAN WABUDA, ALEXANDRA M. WALSHAM Professor R.N. SWANSON teaches in the Department of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.
Essays range chronologically from Luke Gardiner's analysis of Socrates Scholasticus's retelling of the events of the reign of Theodosius I in the 440s, to John Wolffe's essay on modern religious history and the contemporary church.
Studies of the history of groups and societies which have sought to fulfil a religious purpose outside or alongside the official churches, from medieval fraternities to the Oxford Group.
The 27 essays in this volume reflect Christian attitudes on time from the period of the early church through to the 20th century, considering differing views on labor, recreation, the use of time for devotional purposes and preparation for the afterlife, and reactions to its wasting or sinful exploitation.
Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church : Papers Read at the 2003 Summer Meeting and the 2004 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church : Papers Read at the 2003 Summer Meeting and the 2004 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
The Church and Empire', the theme of Studies in Church History, 54, reflects the reality that from its beginnings, the Christian Church has had close, often symbiotic, relationships with empires and imperial power. Initially the Church engaged with the Roman Empire, subsequently in Europe with the Carolingian, Anglo-Norman, Genoese, Venetian and Holy Roman Empires, and later - through the Church's global expansion with European empires in the Americas, Africa and Asia - the Spanish, Dutch, French and British empires, and the imperial structures it encountered there. Bringing together the work of twenty-four historians, this volume explores the relations of churches and empires, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity.
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