Renowned Scripture scholar Gerhard Lohfink brings the origins and progress of enlightenment to the forefront of Christian faith.The history of the European Enlightenment did not begin in the seventeenth century. It started in Greece (something no one...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040475539)
Christian Thought: A Historical Introduction offers a clear and engaging overview of the major ideas, figures, and movements that have shaped Christian theology from the early Church to the present day. Now in its third edition, this accessible and e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040745434)
Christian Thought: A Historical Introduction offers a clear and engaging overview of the major ideas, figures, and movements that have shaped Christian theology from the early Church to the present day. Now in its third edition, this accessible and e...Loe edasi...
This book provides a complete account of the metaphysical aspects of Christology in Western theology, during the years from 1250 to 1310. This period is the most significant for the theology of the middle ages, beginning with Bonaventure and Thomas A...Loe edasi...
What can the life and thought of an eighteenth-century clergyman and college president tell us about the political crises that threaten American democracy today, including institutional racism? The Character of a Nation explores the political ethics...Loe edasi...
What can the life and thought of an eighteenth-century clergyman and college president tell us about the political crises that threaten American democracy today, including institutional racism? The Character of a Nation explores the political ethics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197820353)
America has entered a new intellectual era in which personal identity is assumed to play a significant role in how every person thinks. Todays academy acknowledges that who we are shapes how we view ourselves and the world, which unavoidably injects...Loe edasi...
Il volume del III Colloquio Internazionale RACTA (Ricerche di Archeologia Cristiana, Tarda Antichita e Alto Medioevo), ospitato dal Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana a Roma, raccoglie i contributi di giovani studiosi provenienti da univers...Loe edasi...
This book provides a complete account of the metaphysical aspects of Christology in Western theology, during the years from 1250 to 1310. This period is the most significant for the theology of the middle ages, beginning with Bonaventure and Thomas A...Loe edasi...
Dick Schoon, Ignzio Veca, Ben Smit, Michel Dahan, Elisa Cárdenas Ayala, Bruno Dumons, Sandra Yocum , Alexandre Dupont, Marco Emanuele Omes, Simon Sarlin...
The nineteenth century opened with the See of Peter vacant as rumors circulated throughout war-torn Europe that the papacy had come to an end. By 1870, however, the First Vatican Council had pronounced the doctrine of papal infallibility, turning the...Loe edasi...
The nineteenth century brought unremitting conflict over the Papal States. As temporal sovereignty slipped from the popes hands in the Italian peninsula, the papacy developed into a soft power on a global scale. This transformation was driven both b...Loe edasi...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Reformation transformed Europe and left an indelible mark on the modern world. But what actually was the Reformation and how should it be defined? Historians have long wrangled over whether it...Loe edasi...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Reformation transformed Europe and left an indelible mark on the modern world. But what actually was the Reformation and how should it be defined? Historians have long wrangled over whether it...Loe edasi...
Surveying experience across the Free Churches, this book considers the involvement of British Christians in the public debates about the justification and conduct of war and the pursuit of peace in the first half of the 20th century. It explores chu...Loe edasi...
Surveying experience across the Free Churches, this book considers the involvement of British Christians in the public debates about the justification and conduct of war and the pursuit of peace in the first half of the 20th century. It explores chu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040793770)
How and why does vernacular art become foreign? What does Greek manner mean in regions far beyond the Mediterranean? What stories do images need? How do narratives shape pictures? The study addresses these questions in Byzantine paintings from the...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040787106)
This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond. Throughout the book, the contributors ask several important questions. Was Innocent III more theologian...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040797112)
Commemorating John Moormans immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moormans diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography. Contributors draw upon Moor...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040797143)
The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Churchs past, these religious orders were deeply i...Loe edasi...
Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge. His compilations of the works of earlier authorities formed an essential part of monastic education for centuries. Due to th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040780787)
Commemorating John Moormans immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moormans diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography. Contributors draw upon Moor...Loe edasi...
Irene Bueno, Barbara Bombi, Mike Carr, Sylvain Parent, Sylvain Piron, Valerie Theis, Christian Trottmann
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040785331)
This book offers a unique overview on the career and work on Benedict XII, the third pope of Avignon. Benedict XII (ca. 1334-1342) was a key figure of the Avignon papal court, renowned for rooting out heretics and distinguishing himself as a refined...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040775776)
This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond. Throughout the book, the contributors ask several important questions. Was Innocent III more theologian...Loe edasi...
Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge. His compilations of the works of earlier authorities formed an essential part of monastic education for centuries. Due to th...Loe edasi...
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, Jonathan Phillips, Jotischky, Anne Duggan, Brenda Bolton, Pascal Montaubin, Christoph Egger, Stuart Morgan, Clare Oglesby, Emilia Jamroziak...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040800935)
Elected pope in the wake of a rebellion, Eugenius III came to power as a relative unknown during a time of crisis. This book examines the controversial developments in papal justice and theological debate during his pontificate, his treatment of Cist...Loe edasi...
Irene Bueno, Barbara Bombi, Mike Carr, Sylvain Parent, Sylvain Piron, Valerie Theis, Christian Trottmann
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040791318)
This book offers a unique overview on the career and work on Benedict XII, the third pope of Avignon. Benedict XII (ca. 1334-1342) was a key figure of the Avignon papal court, renowned for rooting out heretics and distinguishing himself as a refined...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040780817)
The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Churchs past, these religious orders were deeply i...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040784020)
The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century,...Loe edasi...
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040787854)
How and why does vernacular art become foreign? What does Greek manner mean in regions far beyond the Mediterranean? What stories do images need? How do narratives shape pictures? The study addresses these questions in Byzantine paintings from the...Loe edasi...
Sari: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040782767)
Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours. These works serve as important sources for the cultural, social, political and...Loe edasi...
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, Jonathan Phillips, Jotischky, Anne Duggan, Brenda Bolton, Pascal Montaubin, Christoph Egger, Stuart Morgan, Clare Oglesby, Emilia Jamroziak...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040796016)
Elected pope in the wake of a rebellion, Eugenius III came to power as a relative unknown during a time of crisis. This book examines the controversial developments in papal justice and theological debate during his pontificate, his treatment of Cist...Loe edasi...
Sari: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040788752)
Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours. These works serve as important sources for the cultural, social, political and...Loe edasi...
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back...Loe edasi...
Sari: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040778869)
The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century,...Loe edasi...
While virtually all early medieval historians wrote about God, they did not do so in the same way. Rather than taking their comments about God at face value then, as has been the case in much work on medieval history-writing, they are deserving of cl...Loe edasi...
The Philocalia of Origen is a collection of texts excerpted from the third century church father Origens numerous works. It was created sometime in the fourth century, perhaps by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus. It is of special interest...Loe edasi...
This study examines the relationship between denominational affiliation, class and gender in the city of Edinburgh between 1850 and 1905. The churches played a leading role in the movements for social and political reform, both locally and nationally...Loe edasi...
While virtually all early medieval historians wrote about God, they did not do so in the same way. Rather than taking their comments about God at face value then, as has been the case in much work on medieval history-writing, they are deserving of cl...Loe edasi...
The claim that Jews abducted and murdered Christian children for alleged ritual purposes or in order to consume their blood during Passover is the most extreme of all the libels that have been used to attack Jews and present them as an existential th...Loe edasi...
The claim that Jews abducted and murdered Christian children for alleged ritual purposes or in order to consume their blood during Passover is the most extreme of all the libels that have been used to attack Jews and present them as an existential th...Loe edasi...
What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic priest who is also a gay man, has been wrestlin...Loe edasi...
What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic priest who is also a gay man, has been wrestlin...Loe edasi...
This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attributed to Ps.-Basil, the text was intended as a s...Loe edasi...
This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attributed to Ps.-Basil, the text was intended as a s...Loe edasi...
In sixteenth-century Germany Martin Luther and his followers engaged in a thorough reform of beliefs and practices related to prayer, a reform rooted in Luthers theological insights. Rejecting medieval beliefs that saw prayer as a good work, Luther...Loe edasi...
St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the cat...Loe edasi...
The German Peasants Revolts of 1525 were a defining moment both for the Protestant Reformation and the history of European culture. But while the conflicts are well-studied, they are typically analyzed today from political and socioeconomic perspect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197653906)
The sacred chest said to have been built by the Israelites to house the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written, the Ark of the Covenant has long captured the popular imagination. According to the Bible, the Israelites carried it wit...Loe edasi...
