An Introduction to ChristianityAn Introduction to Christianity examines the key figures, events and ideas of two thousand years of Christian history and places them in context. It considers the religion in its material as well as its spiritual dimensions and explores its interactions with wider society such as money, politics, force, gender and the family, and non-Christian cultures and societies. This Introduction places particular focus on the ways in which Christianity has understood, embodied and related to power. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will appeal to the student and general reader. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
How Christianity came to power | 9 |
Churches of east and west in the early Middle Ages | 61 |
Christendom the western church in power | 105 |
The Reformation in context | 159 |
Protestant pathways into the modern world | 204 |
Catholic and Orthodox negotiations with modernity | 264 |
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| Title | An Introduction to Christianity An Introduction to Christianity, Linda Woodhead Introduction to Religion |
| Author | Linda Woodhead |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 052178655X, 9780521786553 |
| Length | 439 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / World Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / General Religion / History |
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