The "Second Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840
At the end of the eighteenth century, an evangelical movement gained enormous popularity at all levels of Irish society. Initially driven by the enthusiasm and commitment of Methodists and Dissenters, it quickly gained ascendancy in the Church of Ireland, where its unique blend of moral improvement and conservative piety appealed to those ......
The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology
This volume explores the cultural, political and intellectual forces that helped shape and define nineteenth-century British Christianity. Larsen challenges many of the standard assumptions about Victorian era Christians in their attempts to embody their theological commitments. In contrast to other studies of the period, Larsen highlights the way ......
"Reveals rivalry and confrontation, but also fascination for the exotic as she points out clichTs and distortions that have shaped western views of Islam and its founder."--Book News, Inc.Generations of Western writers --from the Crusades to the present.
Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the ""Dialogue with Trypho"", written by Justin Martyr (circa 165), a convert to Christianity from traditional Greek religion. The ""Dialogue"" purports to be a two-day dialogue that took place in Asia Minor between Justin and Trypho, a ......
During the years between the Council of Nicaea (325) and the Council of Constantinople (381), imperial opposition to Nicene theology sent several of its supporters into exile. One of these supporters was Hilary, the Bishop of Poitiers. Begun during its author's exile (356-360), Hilary's De Trinitate provides a comprehensive discussion of the ......
An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
Chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times, including such historic massacres as the Crusades, the Islamic jihads, the Catholic wars against heretics, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the Reformation, and such atrocities as the Holocaust, and the barbaric cruelty of the theocracy in Iran.
This volume provides an overview of the shape and history of major black religious bodies: Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal. The authors introduce the denominations and their demographics before relating their historical development--from the 18th century to the end of the Civil Rights Movement--into the groups readers know today.
From the time of the Crusades to the present day, European portraits of Muhammad have offered biased and negative representations. This text traces the representations of Muhammad and Islam in Western texts and its manifestation in modern attitudes to Islamic fundamentalism.
The Arians of the Fourth Century was a revolutionary contribution to church history, challenging many of the assumptions of earlier Anglican scholars. John Henry Newman's account of the great struggle over Christian doctrine in the fourth century shows the first signs of his later views on development. It was also in many ways a "tract for the ......
