Christian Beginnings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Beginnings write by Geza Vermes. This book was released on 2013-03-26. Christian Beginnings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIV The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Through a forensic, brilliant reexamination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was—a prophet recognizable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament—to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion. As Jesus's teachings spread across the eastern Mediterranean, hammered into place by Paul, John, and their successors, they were transformed in the space of three centuries into a centralized, state-backed creed worlds away from its humble origins. Christian Beginnings tells the captivating story of how a man came to be hailed as the Son consubstantial with God, and of how a revolutionary, anticonformist Jewish subsect became the official state religion of the Roman Empire. /div
Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls write by John J. Collins. This book was released on 2006-10. Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines some of the major issues that the Dead Sea Scrolls have raised for the study of early Christianity.
The Myth of Christian Beginnings
The Myth of Christian Beginnings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Christian Beginnings write by Robert L. Wilken. This book was released on 2009-05-04. The Myth of Christian Beginnings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this challenging and vividly written book Dr. Wilken shows that there never was a golden age in the Christian past. Christian hope did not come to fulfillment in the age of apostles, nor in the time of Constantine, nor in the Middle Ages, nor during the Reformation, nor in the revivals of the 19th century, nor in the movements of renewal in our own time. The history of Christianity is a story of imperfection and fragmentation, but also a history of hoping and striving for an end that cannot be seen yet bears on the present. With lively examples from the Christian past Wilken shows that change has been an abiding feature of Christian tradition. Often those who proposed new ways of thinking and acted in unexpected ways turned out to be more faithful than those who repeated the old formulas. As much as the past may give specificity and concreteness to renewal in the present Christian hope is set on things that are yet to be.
America's Christian History
America's Christian History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Christian History write by Gary DeMar. This book was released on 2005. America's Christian History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From the founding of the colonies to the declaration of the Supreme Court, America's heritage is built upon the principles of the Christian religion. And yet the secularists are dismantling this foundation brick by brick, attempting to deny the very core of our national life. Gary DeMar presents well-documented facts which will change your perspective about what it means to be a Christian in America; the truth about America's Christian past as it relates to supreme court justices, and presidents; the Christian character of colonial charters, state constitutions, and the US Constitution; the Christian foundation of colleges, the Christian character of Washington, D.C.; the origin of Thanksgiving and so much more."--Publisher's description
Ritual and Christian Beginnings
Ritual and Christian Beginnings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual and Christian Beginnings write by Risto Uro. This book was released on 2016. Ritual and Christian Beginnings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rise of early Christianity has been examined from a myriad of perspectives, but until recently ritual has been a neglected topic. Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis argues that ritual theory is indispensable for the study of Christian beginnings. It also makes a strong case for the application of theories and insights from the Cognitive Science of Religion, a field that has established itself as a vigorous movement in Religious Studies over the past two decades. Risto Uro develops a "socio-cognitive" approach to the study of early Christian rituals, seeking to integrate a social-level analysis with findings from the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. Ritual and Christian Beginnings provides an overview of how ritual has been approached in previous scholarship, including reasons for its neglect, and introduces the reader to the emerging fields of Ritual Studies and the Cognitive Science of Religion. In particular, it explores the ways in which cognitive theories of ritual can shed new light on issues discussed by early Christian scholars, and opens up new questions and avenues for further research. The socio-cognitive approach to ritual is applied to a number of test cases, including John the Baptist, the ritual healing practiced by Jesus and the early Christians, the social life of Pauline Christianity, and the development of early Christian baptismal practices. The analysis creates building blocks for a new account of Christian beginnings, highlighting the role of ritual innovation, cooperative signalling, and the importance of bodily actions for the generation and transmission of religious knowledge.
