Christianity

by Pawlowsky, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781563381126
• ISBN10: 1563381125
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: Trinity Pr Intl

Summary

The initial volume in an exciting new series that provides the essential information on a given topic in a concise and accessible manner, Christianity provides a basic introduction to the history, teachings, practices, and ins titutions of this world religion, presented in a lively, journalistic style.

Table of Contents

Chronological Table
Palestine in the Year Zero	p. 1
Anatomy of a witches' cauldron	p. 1
Prophets and terrorists	p. 3
No precise knowledge about Jesus	p. 5
History in Sermons	p. 7
The New Testament	p. 7
A Jewish sect	p. 8
What Jesus really said	p. 10
Death and resurrection	p. 13
What is 'Christology'?	p. 16
Models for thought	p. 16
Titles and dignities	p. 18
Steps which Led to the Church	p. 20
Itinerant or settled?	p. 21
The story of an alienation	p. 23
The return postponed	p. 26
Persecution and Expansion	p. 30
Exercises in assimilation	p. 30
The fight against Gnosticism	p. 32
The shift under Constantine	p. 34
Under the Pantocrator	p. 36
A religion becomes political	p. 36
The papacy as a power factor	p. 37
Charlemagne in Rome: the Middle Ages	p. 39
Politics and Theological Disputes	p. 42
The councils	p. 42
The great schism	p. 47
'Division of labour' in a monopolistic religion	p. 48
Monks and nuns	p. 51
Heretics and saints	p. 53
Reformation and Counter-Reformation	p. 58
The Nineteenth Century	p. 66
Church, religion and ideology: a division	p. 66
Colonialism and mission	p. 69
The East: the burden and splendour of tradition	p. 72
Like Sand on the Seashore	p. 75
Churches, free churches and sects	p. 75
Ecumenism	p. 90
Christianity as the Way	p. 92
Worship and sacraments	p. 92
A drama with an exchange of roles	p. 96
Towards the third millennium?	p. 98
For further reading	p. 104
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