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by Robert Farrar Capon Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; 1. An Overview of Church History; 2. A Look at Where We Are Now; 3. The Church before the Church; 4. The Church from Peter through Paul; 5. The Church in the Greco-Roman World; 6. The Christendom Model of the Church;7. From Christendom to the Corporate Model; 8. The Church in the Marketplace of New Models; 9. The Brighter Future; Epilogue: The Astonished Heart Paperback
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by Andrew F. Walls The collected lectures and articles of the noted missionary and historian Andrew Walls, professor emeritus of Edinburgh University and founder of The Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World. This book makes the full range of his thought available for the first time to scholars and students of world mission, theology, and church history. Paperback
by Rodney Stark The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is one of many myths that must be discarded if we are to understand just how a tiny messianic movement on the edge of the Roman Empire became the dominant faith of Western civilization. In a fast-paced, highly readable book that addresses beliefs as well as historical facts, Rodney Stark brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity. He comes equipped not only with the logic and methods of social science but also with insights gathered firsthand into why people convert and how new religious groups recruit members. He digs deep into the historical evidence on many issues - such as the social background of converts, the mission to the Jews, the status of women in the church, the role of martyrdom - to provide a vivid and unconventional picture of early Christianity. Hardcover
by L. Michael White Early Christianity seems not to have had a highly developed institutional character. Christians met in the homes of individual members, and there was no such thing as a church building. By the fourth century, however, Christianity had become an official Roman religion, and a new architectural form, the basilica, would soon become the standard throughout the Roman world. In this volume Michael White uses literary, archaeological, and documentary sources to set the architectural history of the early church within its wider cultural context, showing how the change from house churches to public basilicas coincided with crucial developments in the social aspects and religious practices of the emergent Christian movement Volume 2, Paperback
by Anne C. Rose In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major changes in intellectual life that occurred between 1830 and 1860 while exploring three sets of concepts that provided common languages: Christianity, democracy, and capitalism. Rose considers sharply divergent tendencies in religion and politics and a wide range of reformers, authors, and other public figures. She contends that although the key characteristic of the society in which antebellum Americans explored their ideas was openness, the freedom and creativity of antebellum thought depended on conditions of cultural security. In tracing the genesis of a "native culture," Rose surveys the art, literature, and scholarship of the American Renaissance, citing as particularly representative the genres of photography, the short story, history, and the essay. Rose examines Walden, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter, and other celebrated works associated with the American Renaissance, but she also discusses works by African Americans, Irish Americans, Native Americans, and Jewish Americans that have seldom been seen in relation to the era's more famous masterpieces. Paperback
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