A people's history of Christianity : the other side of the story

✍ Scribed by Bass, Diana Butler

Publisher: HarperCollins;HarperOne
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 353
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

While bringing to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism, Butler Bass persuasively argues that corrective--even subversive--beliefs and practices have always been hallmarks of Christianity and are necessary to nourish communities of faith.

Abstract: While bringing to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism, Butler Bass persuasively argues that corrective--even subversive--beliefs and practices have always been hallmarks of Christianity and are necessary to nourish communities of faith

✦ Table of Contents

Content: After Jesus --
The way : early Christianity, 100-500. Christianity as a way of life
Devotion : the love of God
Ethics : the love of neighbor --
The cathedral : medieval Christianity, 500-1450. Christianity as spiritual architecture
Devotion : paradise restored
Ethics : who is my neighbor? --
The word : Reformation Christianity, 1450-1650. Christianity as living words
Devotion : speaking of faith
Ethics : walking the talk --
The quest : modern Christianity, 1650-1945. Christianity as a quest for truth
Devotion : the quest for light
Ethics : kingdom quest --
The river : contemporary Christianity, 1945-now. The river.

✦ Subjects

Church history. Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History. Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

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