TY - BOOK AU - Keen,Ralph TI - The Christian tradition SN - 9780742560895 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BR145.3 .K44 PY - 2004///, CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Church history KW - Christianity N1 - 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 ER -