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" Interpreting Christian history : "
Euan Cameron
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BL
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658855
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Cameron, Euan, (Euan K.)
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Interpreting Christian history : : the challenge of the churches' past /\ Euan Cameron
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, MA :: Blackwell Pub.,, 2005
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xii, 292 p. ;; 24 cm
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9780631215226 (hard cover : alk. paper)
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: 9780631215233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0631215220 (hard cover : alk. paper)
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: 0631215239 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-276) and index
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| Contents
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The unfolding of Christian history : a sketch -- Christianity : a Jewish heresy spreads across the Eastern Empire -- Greek and Latin, east and west -- Persecution, legal establishment, empowerment and retreat -- The Eastern church, the spread of Islam, and expansion northwards -- The Western church of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages -- Disputes over control and the rise of a continental church -- The high medieval synthesis -- Later Middle Ages : the era of fragmentation -- Challenges and ruptures : Renaissance and Reformation -- The age of competing orthodoxies -- Challenges to orthodoxy : reason, enlightenment and revolution -- The era of Romanticism and its implications -- The multiple crises of the twentieth century -- Reflecting on the process of historical development -- Constantly shifting emphases in Christian history -- Emphases shift and change in the Christian churches over time -- Asceticism : giving things up for God -- Expecting miracles -- Martyrdom -- Sacrament and sacrifice : the Eucharistic church -- The company of heaven : the communion of saints -- Purity of doctrine and instruction : the school of faith -- The Christian community and its membership -- Reflections on shifting priorities -- Church historians' responses to change and diversity -- The early church : Eusebius of Caesarea -- Early medieval church history : Bede -- The high middle ages : a monastic chronicle -- Renaissance historiography : rhetoric and scepticism -- The Reformation and the rise of a sense of history -- Martin Luther -- Heinrich Bullinger -- John Calvin -- The rise of reformed schools of church history -- Confessional histories in the age of orthodoxy -- Writing Christian history in the shadow of the Enlightenment -- Gottfried Arnold -- Johann Lorenz von Mosheim -- Towards modern histories of Christianity -- Postmodern and liberation-oriented approaches to Christian history -- Summary and conclusions -- Some theologians reflect on the historical problem -- The historical background to historical-critical theology -- The challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to modernizing theology -- German liberal Protestant theology of the 19th-20th century -- Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) -- Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) -- Responses to liberalism in the 20th century -- Karl Barth (1886-1968) -- Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) and H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962) -- Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928- ) and his colleagues -- Thomism, mysticism and neo-liberalism : some Roman Catholic responses -- Cultural diversity, liberation, postliberalism and postmodernity -- Drawing the threads together
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"Expert historians are not always as good at self-reflecting on their craft at practicing that craft. Euan Cameron, however, is an exemption as shown by his careful assessment of what the historians of this and previous generations have both taken for granted and spelled out explicitly in writing the history of Christianity. As one might expect from a distinguished student of the sixteenth century, Interpreting Christian History is particularly good on what the rise of Protestantism meant for understanding the Christian past. Mark Noll, Wheaton College" -- BACK COVER
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Church history
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History-- Religious aspects-- Christianity
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| Dewey Classification
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270
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BR145.3.C36 2005
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