Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1441266631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1900 many assumed the twentieth century would be a Christian century because Western "Christian empires" ruled most of the world. What happened instead is that Christianity in the West declined dramatically, the empires collapsed, and Christianity's center moved to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. How did this happen so quickly? Respected scholar and teacher Scott Sunquist surveys the most recent century of Christian history, highlighting epochal changes in global Christianity. He also suggests lessons we can learn from this remarkable global Christian reversal. Ideal for an introduction to Christianity or a church history course, this book includes a foreword by Mark Noll.
The Unexpected Christian Century
Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1441266631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1900 many assumed the twentieth century would be a Christian century because Western "Christian empires" ruled most of the world. What happened instead is that Christianity in the West declined dramatically, the empires collapsed, and Christianity's center moved to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. How did this happen so quickly? Respected scholar and teacher Scott Sunquist surveys the most recent century of Christian history, highlighting epochal changes in global Christianity. He also suggests lessons we can learn from this remarkable global Christian reversal. Ideal for an introduction to Christianity or a church history course, this book includes a foreword by Mark Noll.
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1441266631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1900 many assumed the twentieth century would be a Christian century because Western "Christian empires" ruled most of the world. What happened instead is that Christianity in the West declined dramatically, the empires collapsed, and Christianity's center moved to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. How did this happen so quickly? Respected scholar and teacher Scott Sunquist surveys the most recent century of Christian history, highlighting epochal changes in global Christianity. He also suggests lessons we can learn from this remarkable global Christian reversal. Ideal for an introduction to Christianity or a church history course, this book includes a foreword by Mark Noll.
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197751105
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
First published in 1997, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. For this second edition, George M. Marsden has added a new preface as well as an entirely new chapter reflecting on the changing landscape of academia in the quarter century since the book first appeared.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197751105
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
First published in 1997, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. For this second edition, George M. Marsden has added a new preface as well as an entirely new chapter reflecting on the changing landscape of academia in the quarter century since the book first appeared.
The 21st Century Christian
Author: Michael Beck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734508116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734508116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Christ of the 21st Century
Author: Ewert Cousins
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826406998
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Cousins evaluates our present religious condition and reflects on the importance of tradition, spirituality, and mysticism in understanding ourselves and others.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826406998
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Cousins evaluates our present religious condition and reflects on the importance of tradition, spirituality, and mysticism in understanding ourselves and others.
What Did Jesus Look Like?
Author: Joan E. Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567671518
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes. But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus overly westernized and untrue to historical reality? This question continues to fascinate. Leading Christian Origins scholar Joan E. Taylor surveys the historical evidence, and the prevalent image of Jesus in art and culture, to suggest an entirely different vision of this most famous of men. He may even have had short hair.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567671518
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes. But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus overly westernized and untrue to historical reality? This question continues to fascinate. Leading Christian Origins scholar Joan E. Taylor surveys the historical evidence, and the prevalent image of Jesus in art and culture, to suggest an entirely different vision of this most famous of men. He may even have had short hair.
Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Charles Ryle
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780851512686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
At the beginning of this century, Canon A.M.W. Christopher of St. Aldate's, Oxford, declared that he turned to Ryle's book during every summer vacation for thirty years. It is time Christian Leaders was so read again.
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780851512686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
At the beginning of this century, Canon A.M.W. Christopher of St. Aldate's, Oxford, declared that he turned to Ryle's book during every summer vacation for thirty years. It is time Christian Leaders was so read again.
100 Christian Books that Changed the Century
Author: William J. Petersen
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9780800757359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In the twentieth century, a vibrant evangelical culture emerged. The authors explore the key books that influenced the dramatic changes of the past one hundred years.
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9780800757359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In the twentieth century, a vibrant evangelical culture emerged. The authors explore the key books that influenced the dramatic changes of the past one hundred years.
Seeing Jesus
Author: Robert Hudson
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
ISBN: 1506465765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the many Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh? In Seeing Jesus, Robert Hudson explores the larger-than-life characters throughout Christian history who have encountered the actual face or form of the resurrected Christ--from the apostles Thomas and Paul in the first century to Charles Finney in the nineteenth and Sundar Singh in the twentieth. Hudson combines history, biography, spiritual reflection, skepticism, and humor to unpack awe-inspiring and sometimes seemingly absurd stories, from a surprise sighting of Jesus in a cup of coffee, to Christ appearing to Julian of Norwich during a life-threatening illness to assure her that "all manner of thing shall be well." Along the way, he uncovers deeper meaning for us today. Through Hudson's quirky and lyrical prose we get to know people of unflinching faith, like Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Silouan the Athonite, and Sojourner Truth--those who claim radical encounters with Jesus. The result is a fascinating journey through Christian history that is at once thoroughly analytical and deeply devotional.
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
ISBN: 1506465765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the many Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh? In Seeing Jesus, Robert Hudson explores the larger-than-life characters throughout Christian history who have encountered the actual face or form of the resurrected Christ--from the apostles Thomas and Paul in the first century to Charles Finney in the nineteenth and Sundar Singh in the twentieth. Hudson combines history, biography, spiritual reflection, skepticism, and humor to unpack awe-inspiring and sometimes seemingly absurd stories, from a surprise sighting of Jesus in a cup of coffee, to Christ appearing to Julian of Norwich during a life-threatening illness to assure her that "all manner of thing shall be well." Along the way, he uncovers deeper meaning for us today. Through Hudson's quirky and lyrical prose we get to know people of unflinching faith, like Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Silouan the Athonite, and Sojourner Truth--those who claim radical encounters with Jesus. The result is a fascinating journey through Christian history that is at once thoroughly analytical and deeply devotional.
Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem
Author: Elizabeth Mary McNamer
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809145232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Illustrated throughout in four-color pictures, Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem traces the little-known story of the original Jewish-Christian community. Focusing on the first century (33-135 CE) in Jerusalem after the death of Jesus, the authors of this book present evidence to show that the Jerusalem community remained true to their Jewish heritage and had a connection with the Essenes. Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem brings to light Christianity's Jewish connections and an appreciation of Christianity's Jewish heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809145232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Illustrated throughout in four-color pictures, Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem traces the little-known story of the original Jewish-Christian community. Focusing on the first century (33-135 CE) in Jerusalem after the death of Jesus, the authors of this book present evidence to show that the Jerusalem community remained true to their Jewish heritage and had a connection with the Essenes. Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem brings to light Christianity's Jewish connections and an appreciation of Christianity's Jewish heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
The First Three Christian Centuries
Author: Islay Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description