Author: Owen ChadwickPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Pelican History of the Church
Author: Owen ChadwickThe Pelican History of the Church
Author: William Owen ChadwickPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
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Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Author: R. W. SouthernPublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140137552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society. Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century. After sketching the main features of each medieval age, he deals in greater detail with the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops, and the various religious orders, providing in all a superb history of the period.
The Pelican History of the Church
Author: The Penguin History of the Church
Author: Henry ChadwickPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141955023
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world
The Pelican History Og the Church
Author: The Pelican History of the Church
Author: Owen ChadwickThe Pelican History of the Church
Author: Owen ChadwickPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
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The Christian Church in the Cold War
Author: Owen ChadwickPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"From the end of the Second World War until the rise of Gorbachev the division of Europe was the central fact in world politics - for individuals, nations and the different Christian Churches. Amid the ferocious polemics of the Cold War era neutrality was impossible." "The pressures of modernity led to the Second Vatican Council and affected Churches on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Almost all had to adapt to declining congregations, concerns about human rights and women's role in religion, and new attitudes to abortion, contraception and divorce. Yet day-to-day problems in the East and West were utterly different." "In Eastern Europe, the Churches were victims of state control, savage ideological attacks, show trials and occasional physical violence. Critics dwelt on their sometimes inglorious record of compromise and collaboration under fascist regimes, despite the crucial role of the religious resistance in fighting Nazism. Later Church leaders - Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox - often continued to tread a delicate path, but Polish priests helped to oversee the birth of Solidarity, and oppressed nations drew hope from the symbols and ceremonies of their Christian past. Successive Popes, meanwhile, were torn between hatred for Marxism's militant atheism and a pragmatic desire not to endanger the Catholics of Eastern Europe." "The post-war West, by contrast, has seen different countries adapting their own complex arrangements about relations between Church and State. Traditional practices in the great monastic orders, the language of the liturgy and pilgrimages to saints' shrines came under fresh scrutiny, although the charismatic movement proved astonishingly successful. Yet how deeply have the churches come to terms with the fierce winds of modernity? Where religion is tolerated, and even encouraged, do people truly believe what East Europeans know from bitter experience - that 'the religious conscience is an ultimate safeguard of human freedom'?" "Owen Chadwick is General Editor of Penguin's scholarly and comprehensive series The History of the Church and contributed an earlier book, The Reformation. The series starts with the first Disciples. This volume concludes in the late twentieth century - as the Churches struggle to face new global challenges and opportunities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: A. R. Vidler