A brief history of Christianity /
Lindberg, Carter, 1937-
A brief history of Christianity / Carter Lindberg. - Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006. - xii, 216 p. ; pbk ; 19 cm. - Blackwell brief histories of religion .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The responsibility to remember : introduction to the historiography of Christianity -- "The law of praying is the law of believing" -- Sibling rivalry : heresy, orthodoxy, and the ecumenical councils -- The heavenly city : the Augustinian synthesis of biblical religion and Hellenism -- The development of the Medieval papacy -- Faith in search of understanding : Anselm, Abelard, and the beginnings of scholasticism -- The Medieval church -- The Reformations of the sixteenth century -- Pietism and the Enlightenment -- Challenge and response : the church in the nineteenth century -- The Christian churches since World War I.
9781405110471 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005006598
Church history.
270/LIN
A brief history of Christianity / Carter Lindberg. - Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006. - xii, 216 p. ; pbk ; 19 cm. - Blackwell brief histories of religion .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The responsibility to remember : introduction to the historiography of Christianity -- "The law of praying is the law of believing" -- Sibling rivalry : heresy, orthodoxy, and the ecumenical councils -- The heavenly city : the Augustinian synthesis of biblical religion and Hellenism -- The development of the Medieval papacy -- Faith in search of understanding : Anselm, Abelard, and the beginnings of scholasticism -- The Medieval church -- The Reformations of the sixteenth century -- Pietism and the Enlightenment -- Challenge and response : the church in the nineteenth century -- The Christian churches since World War I.
9781405110471 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005006598
Church history.
270/LIN
