The Rise of Christian Europe - 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 Rise of Christian Europe write by H. R. Trevor-Roper. This book was released on 1988-12-01. The Rise of Christian Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The History of Christian Europe
The History of Christian Europe - 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 History of Christian Europe write by G. R. Evans. This book was released on 2018-11-23. The History of Christian Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did Christianity come to have such an extraordinary influence upon Europe? Beginning with the transmission of Jesus - teaching throughout the Roman world, Gillian Evans shows how Christianity transformed not only the thinking but also the structures of society, in a Christendom that was, until relatively modern times, essentially a "European" phenomenon. She traces Christianity's influence across the centuries, from its earliest days, through the East/West schism, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, to its development in the scientific age of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its place in the modern world. The History of Christian Europe will appeal to scholars of religion and history who are seeking a fuller understanding of how Christianity helped shape and define Europe and, consequently, the wider world.
The Formation of Christian Europe
The Formation of Christian Europe - 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 Formation of Christian Europe write by Owen Michael Phelan. This book was released on 2014. The Formation of Christian Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Formation of Christian Europe analyzes the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe. He analyzes how baptism unified people theologically, socially, and politically and helped Carolingian leaders order their approaches to public life. It enabled reformers to think in ways which were ideologically consistent, publicly available, and socially useful. Phelan also examines the influential court intellectual, Alcuin of York, who worked to implement a sacramental society through baptism. The book finally looks at the dissolution of Carolingian political aspirations for an imperium christianum and how, by the end of the ninth century, political frustrations concealed the deeper achievement of the Carolingian Renewal.
The Rise of Christian Europe
The Rise of Christian Europe - 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 Rise of Christian Europe write by Hugh Trevor-Roper. This book was released on 1965. The Rise of Christian Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe
The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe - 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 Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe write by Stathis N. Kalyvas. This book was released on 2018-09-05. The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although dominant in West European politics for more than a century, Christian Democratic parties remain largely unexplored and little understood. An investigation of how political identities and parties form, this book considers the origins of Christian Democratic "confessional" parties within the political context of Western Europe. Examining five countries where a successful confessional party emerged (Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, and Italy) and one where it did not (France), Stathis N. Kalyvas addresses perplexing questions raised by the Christian Democratic phenomenon. How can we reconcile the religious roots of these parties with their tremendous success and resilience in secular and democratic Western Europe? Why have these parties discarded their initial principles and objectives to become secular forces governing secular societies? The author's answers reveal the way in which social and political actors make decisions based on self-interest under conditions that constrain their choices and the information they rely on—often with unintended but irrevocable consequences.Kalyvas also lays a foundation for a theory of the Christian Democratic phenomenon which would specify the conditions under which confessional parties succeed and would determine the impact of such parties, and the way they are formed, on politics and society. Drawing from political science, sociology, and history, his analysis goes beyond Christian Democracy to address issues related to the methodology of political science, the theory of party formation, the political development of Europe, the relationship between religion and politics, the construction of collective political identities, and the role of agency and contingency in politics.
