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The Christian tradition / Ralph Keen.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004, Edition: 1st Rowman & Littlefield pbk. edDescription: 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780742560895 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0742560899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR145.3 .K44
Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1. The emergence of Christianity -- Judaism in various forms : an ambivalent inheritance -- Literature of the early Church : texts as preservers of experience -- Roman power and religion : divine destinies in conflict -- Worship in the early Church : a case study in adaptation -- Chapter 2. The Christian religion in late antiquity -- The emergence of hierarchy : papal beginnings -- The flourishing of liturgy : devotion through ritual and imagery -- The monastic microcosm : the Benedictine norm and reform -- The expansion of the Church : first missionary movements and the Crusades -- Chapter 3. Medieval Western Christian culture -- Carolingian culture and religion : a medieval renaissance -- Scholasticism : from Anselm to Aquinas -- The Church and the law : the investiture controversy -- The mendicant orders and lay movements : new forms of religious life -- Scholasticism and salvation : the sacramental system -- Spirituality and mystical experience : medieval mystics -- Chapter 4. From medieval to modern, from one Church, many -- Launching the Reformation : Martin Luther's revolution -- Development of the Reformation : the spread of Protestantism -- Protestant orthodoxy : developments in Scholasticism -- Reformation-era Catholicism : reaction and new religious orders -- The challenge of rationalism : skepticism and faith in the 17th century -- Early American religion : between Reformation and Enlightenment -- Chapter 5. From Enlightenment to modernity -- Enlightenment religion : adaptations in an age of progress -- The dawn of modern religion : the West and its missions -- Challenges to the English Church : the Oxford Movement and evolution -- Nineteenth-century America : religious diversity and revivalism -- Roman Catholicism : confronting the modern world -- Chapter 6. The twentieth century and beyond -- Social Christianity : the dawn of the 20th century -- The crisis of war : the recovery of orthodoxy -- Ecumenical initiatives : the World Council of Churches and Vatican II -- Mainstreams and margins : colonialism and liberation theology -- Christianity at the dawn of the third millennium.
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Previously published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2004.

Introduction --
Chapter 1. The emergence of Christianity --
Judaism in various forms : an ambivalent inheritance --
Literature of the early Church : texts as preservers of experience --
Roman power and religion : divine destinies in conflict --
Worship in the early Church : a case study in adaptation --
Chapter 2. The Christian religion in late antiquity --
The emergence of hierarchy : papal beginnings --
The flourishing of liturgy : devotion through ritual and imagery --
The monastic microcosm : the Benedictine norm and reform --
The expansion of the Church : first missionary movements and the Crusades --
Chapter 3. Medieval Western Christian culture --
Carolingian culture and religion : a medieval renaissance --
Scholasticism : from Anselm to Aquinas --
The Church and the law : the investiture controversy --
The mendicant orders and lay movements : new forms of religious life --
Scholasticism and salvation : the sacramental system --
Spirituality and mystical experience : medieval mystics --
Chapter 4. From medieval to modern, from one Church, many --
Launching the Reformation : Martin Luther's revolution --
Development of the Reformation : the spread of Protestantism --
Protestant orthodoxy : developments in Scholasticism --
Reformation-era Catholicism : reaction and new religious orders --
The challenge of rationalism : skepticism and faith in the 17th century --
Early American religion : between Reformation and Enlightenment --
Chapter 5. From Enlightenment to modernity --
Enlightenment religion : adaptations in an age of progress --
The dawn of modern religion : the West and its missions --
Challenges to the English Church : the Oxford Movement and evolution --
Nineteenth-century America : religious diversity and revivalism --
Roman Catholicism : confronting the modern world --
Chapter 6. The twentieth century and beyond --
Social Christianity : the dawn of the 20th century --
The crisis of war : the recovery of orthodoxy --
Ecumenical initiatives : the World Council of Churches and Vatican II --
Mainstreams and margins : colonialism and liberation theology --
Christianity at the dawn of the third millennium.

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