The Primitive Church in the Modern World - 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 Primitive Church in the Modern World write by Richard Thomas Hughes. This book was released on 1995. The Primitive Church in the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Primitive Church
The Primitive Church - 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 Primitive Church write by Rev. Fr. D. I. Lanslots. This book was released on 1980-10. The Primitive Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How the Catholic Church got started. Covers Sts. Peter and Paul; first Popes; the written and unwritten word; Council of Jerusalem; persecutions; religious life of early Christians; early popes and martyrs; birth of the New Testament.
The American Quest for the Primitive Church
The American Quest for the Primitive Church - 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 American Quest for the Primitive Church write by Richard Thomas Hughes. This book was released on 1988. The American Quest for the Primitive Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dream of restoring primitive Christianity lies close to the core of the identity of some American denominations---Churches of Christ, Latter-day Saints, some Mennonites, and a variety of Holiness and Pentecostal denominations. But how can a return to ancient Christianity be sustained in a world increasingly driven by modernization? What meaning might such a vision have in the modern world? Twelve distinguished scholars explore these and related questions in this provocative book.
Parish Churches in the Early Modern World
Parish Churches in the Early Modern World - 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 Parish Churches in the Early Modern World write by Andrew Spicer. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Parish Churches in the Early Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself artistically and architecturally stood apart from the parish community. It was often the largest and only stone-built building in a village; it was legally distinct being subject to canon law, as well as consecrated for the celebration of religious rites. The buildings associated with the "cure of souls" were sacred sites or holy places, where humanity interacted with the divine. In spite of the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this balance and reflects on the parish church across a number of confessions - Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Anti-Trinitarian - during the early modern period. Rather than providing a series of case studies of individual buildings, each essay looks at the evolution of parish churches in response to religious reform as well as confessional change and upheaval. They examine aspects of their design and construction; furnishings and material culture; liturgy and the use of the parish church. While these essays range widely across Europe, the volume also considers how religious provision and the parish church were translated into a global context with colonial and commercial expansion in the Americas and Asia. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to identify what was distinctive about the parish church for the congregations that gathered in them for worship and for communities across the early modern world.
Christianity's Surprise
Christianity's Surprise - 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 Christianity's Surprise write by C. Kavin Rowe. This book was released on 2020-10-20. Christianity's Surprise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking. Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, and expected, losing its power to surprise and transform. We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was – and what it still can be. We need to recover the surprise of Christianity. We need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians, which will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst. Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of what it is to understand Christianity at all, and thus what it is to remember and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with being Christian at the beginning. This remembering and relearning can, in turn, surprise us all over again and chart a course for our witness today.
