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ISBN 10: 0190498580
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Author: Peter Feldmeier
Featuring an exceptionally lucid writing style and a holistic, integrated approach, The Christian Tradition: A Historical and Theological Introduction traces the history of Christianity across the world from its earliest origins up to the present. By connecting theological practices to historical developments, it helps students understand and appreciate how theological values and perspectives have grounded major figures and movements. Revealing the many ways that tradition, history, doctrine, and practice are in constant dialogue, The Christian Tradition offers a fascinating and balanced introduction to Christianity. PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES: Numerous visual aids, including more than fifteen maps, keep students engaged A master timeline at the beginning of the book and chapter-specific timelines provide historical context “What to Expect” segments give students a preview of the major concepts covered in each chapter Text boxes throughout offer in-depth looks at specific events, figures, and ideas Key terms are bolded at their first appearance, listed at the end of each chapter, and reviewed in a comprehensive glossary at the end of the book “Conclusions” sections at the end of each chapter remind students of the most important parts of the material they’ve just read
The Christian Tradition 1st Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
INTRODUCING CHRISTIANITY
CHRISTIAN SOURCES: THE WESLEYAN QUADRILATERAL
THE BIBLE AS AUTHORITY
APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE
THEMES OF THE BIBLE
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 2: The Old Testament
INTRODUCTION
THE BIBLE AND HISTORY
GENESIS AND THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
GENESIS 2:4b–11:9: ADAM AND EVE
GENESIS 1:1–2:4a
MAKING SENSE OF THE TWO STORIES
GENESIS AND THE PATRIARCHS (EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BCE)
MAKING SENSE OF THE PATRIARCHS
EXODUS (THIRTEENTH CENTURY BCE)
MAKING SENSE OF THE EXODUS
JUDGES (c. 1220–1020 BCE)
MAKING SENSE OF THE JUDGES
MONARCHY (c. 1020–586 BCE) AND OTHER DYNASTIES
MAKING SENSE OF THE MONARCHY
PROPHETS
MAIN THEOLOGICAL THEMES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
LAW
PRIESTHOOD AND SACRIFICE
POLYTHEISM TO MONOTHEISM
SHEOL, HEAVEN, AND HELL
SATAN
ISRAEL’S RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 3: Jesus and the New Testament
THE SETTING
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND HOW IT WAS FORMED
THE GOSPELS OF JESUS
THE MINISTRY OF JESUS
THE GOSPEL OF MARK
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
THINKING ABOUT THE PORTRAITS OF JESUS
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTE
CHAPTER 4: Christian Faith in the New Testament
INTRODUCTION TO THE REST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
THE APOSTLE PAUL (c. 5–64 CE)
PAUL, THE EARLY CHURCH, AND THE JUDAIZERS
PAUL’S LETTERS
PAUL’S THEOLOGY
PAUL’S SOTERIOLOGY: HOW CHRISTIANS ARE SAVED
THE LETTER TO THE GALATIANS
THE END OF PAUL’S LIFE
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTE
CHAPTER 5: Christianity Becomes a Religion
FROM JUDAISM TO CHRISTIANITY
WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?
GNOSTICISM
PROTO-ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY
The Threefold Ministry
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
PERSECUTIONS
APOLOGISTS
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 6: The Life of the Early Church
FROM APOCALYPTIC TO ESCHATOLOGICAL
CHURCH AS CENTER
BAPTISM
THE EUCHARIST
DAILY GATHERINGS
MORAL RIGOR
ASCETICISM
CONSECRATED VIRGINITY
VENERATION OF SAINTS
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 7: The Imperial Church
CONSTANTINE
COUNCILS AND DOGMAS
NICAEA (325 CE)
CONSTANTINOPLE (381 CE)
EPHESUS (431 CE)
CHALCEDON (451 CE)
CHRISTOLOGICAL AND TRINITARIAN DOGMAS IN BRIEF
JESUS THE CHRIST
THE TRINITY
COUNCILS AND THE BREAKUP OF THE PATRISTIC CHURCH
CHURCH AND STATE
PATRIARCHAL SEES
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 8: The Great Fathers and the Quest for Union with God
BACKGROUND
FATHERS OF THE EAST
ORIGEN (185–254 CE)
ATHANASIUS (c. 300–373 CE)
THE CAPPADOCIANS
Basil of Caesarea (330–379 CE)
Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 325–390 CE)
Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–394 CE)
AUGUSTINE (354–430 CE) AND THE WEST
THE LIFE OF AUGUSTINE
THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY
THE PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY
CITY OF GOD
AUGUSTINE AND UNION WITH GOD
AUGUSTINE’S LEGACY
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 9: Christianity’s Spiritual Life
MONASTICISM
EASTERN MONASTICISM
WESTERN MONASTICISM
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND THE PUBLIC CHURCH
SACRAMENTS: WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH MEET
THE CENTRALITY OF THE EUCHARIST
THE ROLE OF MARY
ICONS
HESYCHASM: UNCEASING PRAYER AND STILLNESS
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 10: Expansion and Change in the East and North
EGYPT, NUBIA, AND ETHIOPIA
EGYPT AND COPTIC CHRISTIANITY
NUBIA
ETHIOPIA
THE CHURCH OF THE EAST
EXPANSION OF THE BYZANTINE CHURCH
ARMENIA AND GEORGIA (IBERIA)
SLAVIC LANDS
RUSSIAN FAITH
CONVERSIONS FROM THE TOP DOWN
THE SURGING OF ISLAM
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 11: The Church and the Western Empire
RECONSTITUTION OF THE WEST
IRELAND, ENGLAND, AND SCANDINAVIA
CHARLEMAGNE AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
FROM THE MEROVINGIANS TO THE CAROLINGIANS
CHARLEMAGNE
CONSIDERING PAPAL DEVELOPMENTS
POPES LEO I (r. 440–461) AND GELASIUS I (r. 492–496)
POPE GREGORY I (r. 590–604)
PAPAL QUAGMIRE, REFORM, AND THE SEPARATION OF EAST AND WEST
GREGORY VII (r. 1073–1085)
INNOCENT III (r. 1198–1216)
BONIFACE VIII (r. 1294–1303)
CHRISTIANITY AND WAR
JUST WAR
THE CRUSADES
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 12: Medieval Piety and the Rise of the Universities
CULTURAL SHIFTS IN EUROPE
FROM A GIFT ECONOMY TO A PROFIT ECONOMY
EARLY RESPONSES TO THE SHIFT
THE INQUISITION
THE DOMINICAN RESPONSE
THE FRANCISCAN RESPONSE
MEDIEVAL FEMININE AFFECTIVE PIETY
SEXUAL STEREOTYPES
JESUS AS MOTHER
FEMININE EROTIC MYSTICISM
SHRINES, MIRACLES, AND THE MEDIEVAL MIND
THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES
CHRISTIAN SCHOLASTICISM
THOMAS AQUINAS (1225–1274)
NOMINALISM
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 13: The Renaissance
FROM THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE RENAISSANCE
A TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE
HUMANISM AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE INDIVIDUAL
SOUTHERN RENAISSANCE
TEXTS AND THE POWER OF WORDS
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
THE AVIGNON PAPACY, CONCILIARISM, AND RENAISSANCE POPES
NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
VOICES OF REFORM
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 14: The Reformation
BACKGROUND
LUTHERAN REFORMATION
THE INDULGENCE ISSUE
THE NINETY-FIVE THESES AND THE LEIPZIG DEBATE
THE DIET OF WORMS
LUTHERAN SEPARATION
LUTHER’S VISION
SWISS REFORMED CHRISTIANITY
ULRICH ZWINGLI (1484–1531)
JOHN CALVIN (1509–1564)
ARMINIANISM AND T.U.L.I.P.
THE RADICAL REFORMATION
THE ENGLISH REFORMATION
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 15: The Catholic Reformation
COUNTER-REFORMATION OR CATHOLIC REFORMATION?
CARMELITES AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OF MYSTICISM
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA AND THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (1545–1563)
ATTEMPTED REFORMS PRIOR TO TRENT
TRENT (1545–1563)
EASTERN ORTHODOXY AT THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 16: The Enlightenment
THE WARS OF RELIGION
THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
THE LOW COUNTRIES
FRANCE
THE PURITAN REVOLUTION
HOW RELIGIOUS WERE THE WARS OF RELIGION?
SECURED STATEMENTS OF FAITH
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
RATIONALISM
EMPIRICISM
DEISM
FAITH IN HUMANITY
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 17: Colonization and Missions
THE CHRISTIAN IMPERATIVE TO CONVERT SOULS
AFRICA
THE NEW WORLD
MARIAN INTERVENTION
REACTIONS AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE
THE CONGREGATION FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH
ASIA
INDIA
JAPAN
CHINA
ASIAN ISLANDS
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 18: Christianity in the United States to the Civil War
THE AMERICAN COLONIES
VIRGINIA
MASSACHUSETTS
RHODE ISLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA
COLONIAL ALIGNMENTS
PIETISM, METHODISM, AND THE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT
PIETISM
METHODISM
AMERICAN REVIVALISM AND EVANGELICALISM
JONATHAN EDWARDS AND THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
CATHOLICS IN AMERICA
MILLENNIALISM AND NEW DENOMINATIONS
BLACK CHURCHES
CONCLUSIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 19: Modern Challenges to Christianity
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE ITALIAN
FRANCE
ITALY
ATHEISM
EVOLUTION AND THE SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW
SCIENCE AND SCIENTISM
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
BIBLICAL CRITICISM
CHURCH RESPONSES TO THE MODERN CHALLENGES OF FAITH
LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM
NEO-ORTHODOXY
FUNDAMENTALISM
ROMAN CATHOLICISM
REACTIONS AGAINST MODERNISM
VATICAN II
EASTERN ORTHODOXY: RUSSIA AND THE OTTOMAN DECAY
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 20: The Rise of Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity
THE MODERN EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT
WHAT IS AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN?
EVANGELICALISM AND THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RIGHT
THE MEGA-CHURCH MOVEMENT
THE PENTECOSTAL EXPLOSION
THE EARLY MOVEMENT
CHARISMATIC RENEWAL
PENTECOSTAL PIETY
PROSPERITY PREACHING
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
KEY TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER 21: Modern Faith and Future Trends
LEAVING BEHIND EUROCENTRISM
THE GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY WORLDWIDE
THE CHRISTIAN EXPLOSION IN AFRICA
AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY AND VIOLENCE
SOUTH KOREA
PROPHETIC LIBERATING THEOLOGIES
LIBERATION THEOLOGY
FEMINIST THEOLOGY
BLACK THEOLOGY
THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
RECONSIDERING THE RELIGIOUS OTHER
THEOLOGIES OF RELIGION
INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY
CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
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