Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
2 total works
3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and movements associated with love, Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity traces the evolution and impact of this timeless topic.
* Takes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love * Examines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history * Tackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns * Explores diverse periods and examples - from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise * Contributes valuable insights into one of history's most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to today's liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.
* Takes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love * Examines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history * Tackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns * Explores diverse periods and examples - from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise * Contributes valuable insights into one of history's most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to today's liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.
Charting the rise and development of Christianity, Carter Lindberg has succeeded in writing a concise and compelling history of the world's largest religion. He spans over 2,000 years of colorful incident to give an authoritative history of Christianity for both the general reader and the beginning student. * Ranges from the missionary journeys of the apostles to the tele-evangelism of the twenty-first century. * Demonstrates how the Christian community received and forged its identity from its development of the Bible to the present day. * Covers topics fundamental to understanding the course of Western Christianity, including the growth of the papacy, heresy and schism, reformation and counter-reformation. * Includes an introduction to the historiography of Christianity, a note on the problems of periodization, an appendix on theological terms, and a useful bibliography. * An authoritative yet succinct history, written to appeal to a general audience as well as students of the history of Christianity. * Written by internationally regarded theologian, Carter Lindberg, who is the author of numerous titles on theology and Church history.