| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxvi, 680 pages, [A1]-A36 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Norton anthology of world religions |
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Norton anthology of world religions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages A19-A25) and index. |
| Summary |
Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. |
| Contents |
How the West Learned to Compare Religions / Jack Miles -- The Words and the Word Made Flesh / Lawrence S. Cunningham -- The Apostolic Era, 4 B.C.E.-100 C.E. The Old Testament ; The New Testament -- The Patristic Era, 100-600 C.E. Early Christian Worship ; The Roman Persecutions ; Other Christian Gospels ; Articulations of Christian Belief ; Biographical and Autobiographical Texts ; Early Christian Hymnody ; The Ascetic Tradition -- The Middle Ages, 600-1300. Missionary Expansion ; Medieval Monasticism ; The Mendicant Tradition ; Medieval Latin Hymnody -- The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1517. Visions of Hell and Heaven, Creation and Creator ; Outspoken Women and the First Stirrings of Reform -- Reformations and the Wars of Religion, 1517-1700. Pillars of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, France, and England ; Dueling Martyrologies: Christian contra Christian ; Spanish Mystics of the Catholic Reformation ; Christianity Reaches the New World and China ; Baroque Devotion in a Century of Conversion and Counterconversion ; Epics of Salvation ; Protestant Catholics, Catholic Protestants, and Beyond -- Encounters with Modernity, 1700-1914. The Bible within the Limits of Reason Alone ; Romanticism, Nature, and the Christianity of the Heart ; Scandal and Paradox, Fear and Faith ; The Sea of Faith: Ebb or Flood? -- The Twentieth Century, 1914-2001 -- The New Millennium, 2001-the Present |
| Subject |
Christianity.
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Church history -- Sources.
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Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
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Church history. (OCoLC)fst00860740
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| Genre/Form |
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Sources.
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| Added Author |
Cunningham, Lawrence, editor.
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| ISBN |
0393918998 |
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9780393918991 |
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0393355047 |
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9780393355048 |
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