Church History

By Peter Biller, A.J. Minnis

ISBN-10: 0585259135

ISBN-13: 9780585259130

ISBN-10: 0952973405

ISBN-13: 9780952973409

This is often the 1st quantity to be released through York Medieval Press, less than the aegis of college of York's Centre for Medieval experiences in organization with Boydell & Brewer, with the purpose of marketing cutting edge scholarship and clean feedback on medieval tradition. It has a unique dedication to interdisciplinary learn, based on the Centre's trust that the way forward for medieval stories lies in components during which its significant disciplines immediately tell and problem one another. The attitudes in the direction of the human physique held via varied branches of medieval theology are presently a massive concentration of scholarly recognition. this primary quantity from York Medieval Press contains reviews of the metaphor of guy as head and girl as physique, Abelard, girls and Catharism, the feminine physique as an obstacle to ordination, girls mystics, and the college of York's 1995 Quodlibet Lecture given via Eamon Duffy at the early iconography and `lives' of St Francis of Assisi..... Thenew scholarly essays amassed the following discover ways that the human physique - a tremendous concentration of consciousness in fresh paintings on literary thought and cultural reviews -was handled by means of numerous branches of medieval theology; they're derived within the mainfrom a convention held at York in 1995, below the name `This physique of Death', including extra invited papers at the related subject. It comprises the 1st of the yearly Quodlibet Lectures in medieval theology, Eamon Duffy's masterly examine of the early iconography and `lives' of St Francis of Assisi.

By Dr Andrew Robinson

ISBN-10: 9004187995

ISBN-13: 9789004187993

Christianity has been defined as "a faith looking a metaphysic." Drawing at the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework targeted round a 'semiotic version' of the Trinity. The version invitations a clean method of the declare that Jesus was once the incarnate observe of God and indicates a brand new means of knowing how nature may well undergo the imprint of the Triune author within the type of 'vestiges of the Trinity in creation'. medical spin-offs comprise a brand new viewpoint at the challenge of the starting place of existence and a unique speculation concerning the evolution of human uniqueness. the result's an unique contribution to Trinitarian theology and a daring new method of integrating philosophy, technological know-how and faith.

By Gale Group

ISBN-10: 0787640069

ISBN-13: 9780787640064

Others.< P>In addition to the loads of latest signed articles on a wide selection of subject matters, this new version additionally positive factors biographies of up to date spiritual figures; millions of images, maps and illustrations; and up-to-date bibliographical citations. The fifteenth quantity is a cumulative index to the whole encyclopedia.

By Andrew Cain

ISBN-10: 9004237062

ISBN-13: 9789004237063

In 'Jerome and the Monastic Clergy,' Andrew Cain presents the 1st full-scale observation at the recognized Letter to Nepotian, within which Jerome articulates his radical plan for enforcing a strict ascetic code of behavior at the modern clergy. Cain comprehensively addresses stylistic, literary, old, text-critical and different problems with interpretive curiosity. Accompanying the observation is an advent which situates the Letter within the broader context of its author’s existence and paintings and exposes its primary propagandistic dimensions. The revised severe Latin textual content and the hot facing-page translation will make the Letter extra available than ever sooner than and should supply a competent textual gear for destiny scholarship in this key writing via probably the most prolific authors in Latin antiquity.

By John Corrigan

ISBN-10: 022623746X

ISBN-13: 9780226237466

ISBN-10: 022623763X

ISBN-13: 9780226237633

By Jackson Lashier

ISBN-10: 9004278141

ISBN-13: 9789004278141

In Irenaeus at the Trinity, Jackson Lashier presents a clean analyzing of Irenaeus' knowing of God, in discussion together with his competitors and assets, which finds a extra built Trinitarian theology than typically notion. Key Trinitarian subject matters that emerge are the Fatherhood of God, the mutual indwelling kin of pop, Son, and Spirit, and the cooperative divine paintings of all 3 within the economic system. The examine unearths Irenaeus' notion to leave in those components from commonplace moment century trajectories--Apologists and Gnostics--moving Trinitarian theology towards extra constructed Trinitarian considered later centuries. This monograph deals not just a greater realizing of Irenaeus' concept, but in addition a fuller photo of the advance of Trinitarian notion in early Christianity.

By Garner Ted Armstrong

ISBN-10: 0836207270

ISBN-13: 9780836207279

By Michael J. Wilkins, J. P. Moreland

ISBN-10: 0310617006

ISBN-13: 9780310617006

Is the historic Jesus anything below the Bible says he's, as glossy students contend? Or is he in reality every little thing the Bible says he's? Jesus lower than fireplace is a well timed, well-researched, comprehensible refutation of modern liberal interpretations of Jesus--one that pondering, open-minded humans, Christian and non-Christian alike, will delight in.

By Michele Renee Salzman

ISBN-10: 0674006410

ISBN-13: 9780674006416

ISBN-10: 0674016033

ISBN-13: 9780674016033

A magnificent piece of labor. Salzman has produced the main entire quantitative learn of conversion of noblemen up to now. I fairly beloved her concluding bankruptcy on their impact on Christianity. She exhibits that fourth-century bishops followed the rhetoric of the Aristocracy and honor of their preaching and writing in a manner that appealed to aristocrats. (Elizabeth Clark, Duke collage )

By John Philip Jenkins

ISBN-10: 0061981419

ISBN-13: 9780061981418

The Fifth-Century Political Battles That eternally replaced the Church

In this attention-grabbing account of the strangely violent fifth-century church, PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by way of a handful of robust charactersshaped Christian doctrine. have been it now not for those battles, today’s church may perhaps beteaching whatever very diversified concerning the nature of Jesus, and the papacy as weknow it can by no means have come into lifestyles. Jesus Wars unearths the profoundimplications of what quantities to an twist of fate of heritage: that one faction ofRoman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another.