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Author Meister, Chad

Title Christian Thought : a Historical Introduction
Edition 2nd ed
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (493 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Incubations and origins: the ancient period 500BCE-70CE; 1 The pre-history of Christian thought; 2 Jesus of Nazareth; 3 The Apostle Paul: his thought and context; 4 The break from Judaism; Part 2 Definition and resistance: The Patristic period 70-500; 5 Persecution of Christians; 6 Spirituality and asceticism: the desert fathers and mothers; 7 The Christian apologists: interacting with Gnosticism and other "heresies."
8 The early Church councils: Christological controversy and definition9 Trinitarian debate; 10 Formation of the New Testament canon; 11 Augustine: philosopher, theologian, and church father; Part 3 Establishment and diversification: the Medieval period 500-1500; 12 Monasticism of the early Middle Ages; 13 Eastern Christianity splits from the West; 14 Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard; 15 Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages; 16 Women and theology in the Middle Ages; 17 Thomas Aquinas; 18 Preparation for reform; Part 4 Protest and revolution: the Reformation period 1500-1700; 19 Martin Luther
20 The Reformed tradition21 Protesting against the Protestants: Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation; 22 Reformation continues: the English and the Catholics; Part 5 Enlightenment and evolution: the Modern period 1700-2000 and beyond; 23 The challenge of modernism; 24 Pietism and revivalism; 25 Romanticism's response to Enlightenment theology; 26 Neo-orthodoxy: Karl Barth and others; 27 Liberal Protestantism; 28 Major theological traditions and developments in the twentieth century; 29 Recent and emerging themes; Glossary; Notes; Index
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Subject Church history.
church history.
Church history
Form Electronic book
Author Stump, James
ISBN 9781317436072
1317436075