Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 400
Trim: 7¾ x 9¼
978-0-7425-6089-5 • Paperback • August 2008 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-0-7425-6459-6 • eBook • August 2008 • $103.50 • (£80.00)
Ralph Keen is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Iowa. Professor Keen received his doctorate in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago.
Part 1 The Emergence of Christianity
Chapter 2 Judaism in Various Forms: An Ambivalent Inheritance
Chapter 3 Literature of the Early Church: Texts as Preservers of Experience
Chapter 4 Roman Power and Religion: Divine Destinies in Conflict
Chapter 5 Worship in the Early Church: A Case Study in Adaptation
Part 6 The Christian Religion in Late Antiquity
Chapter 7 The Emergence of Hierarchy: Papal Beginnings
Chapter 8 The Flourishing of Liturgy: Devotion Through Ritual and Imagery
Chapter 9 The Monastic Microcosm: The Benedictine Norm and Reform
Chapter 10 The Expansion of the Church: First Missionary Movements and the Crusades
Part 11 Medieval Western Christian Culture
Chapter 12 Carolingian Culture and Religion: A Medieval Renaissance
Chapter 13 Scholasticism: From Anselm to Aquinas
Chapter 14 The Church and the Law: The Investiture Controversy
Chapter 15 The Mendicant Orders and Lay Movements: New Forms of Religious Life
Chapter 16 Scholasticism and Salvation: The Sacramental System
Chapter 17 Spirituality and Mystical Experience: Medieval Mystics
Part 18 From Medieval to Modern, from One Church, Many
Chapter 19 Launching the Reformation: Martin Luther's Revolution
Chapter 20 Development of the Reformation: The Spread of Protestantism
Chapter 21 Protestant Orthodoxy: Developments in Scholasticism
Chapter 22 Reformation-Era Catholicism: Reaction and New Religious Orders
Chapter 23 The Challenge of Rationalism: Skepticism and Faith in the 17th Century
Chapter 24 Early American Religion: Between Reformation and Enlightenment
Part 25 From Enlightenment to Modernity
Chapter 26 Enlightenment Religion: Adaptations in an Age of Progress
Chapter 27 The Dawn of Modern Religion: The West and its Missions
Chapter 28 Challenges to the English Church: The Oxford Movement and Evolution
Chapter 29 Nineteenth-century America: Religious Diversity and Revivalism
Chapter 30 Roman Catholicism: Confronting the Modern World
Part 31 The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Chapter 32 Social Christianity: The Dawn of the 20th Century
Chapter 33 The Crisis of War: The Recovery of Orthodoxy
Chapter 34 Ecumenical Initiatives: The World Council of Churches and Vatican II
Chapter 35 Mainstreams and Margins: Colonialism and Liberation Theology
Chapter 36 Christianity at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
* An innovative social and cultural history of Christianity
* Special consideration given to the religious life and arts of Christianity
* Biographical profiles highlighting the lives and work of influential figures
* Extracts from the writings of key religious personalities
* Boxes with key statistical data
* Timelines providing overviews of important events in each period
* Nine maps with historical and geographical content
* End-of-chapter terms
* Over 100 photos and illustrations