Jeffrey Burton Russell

A History of Medieval Christianity

Prophecy and Order

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This volume, a general history of the church in the Middle Ages, pays close attention to the spiritual, intellectual, and institutional aspects of medieval Christianity. From its beginnings, the church has existed in a state of tension between two forces: the spirit of order and the spirit of prophecy. The spirit of order attempts to reform humanity and human institutions; the spirit of prophecy attempts to transform them into the world of God. This tension created a balance within the church that kept it from forgetting the nature of basic religious experience while continuing to remain sensitive to the needs of society.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lumsden, Douglas W.

ISBN: 978-0-8204-4511-3
EAN: 9780820445113
Produktnummer: 15975731
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 205 S.
Masse: H15.5 cm x B23.6 cm x D1.2 cm 300 g
Auflage: 4 Revised edition
Gewicht: 300
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The Authors: Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of sixteen previous books, including most recently A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence. His other works include Dissent and Order in the Middle Ages: The Search for Legitimate Authority; Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians; and his series on the history of the embodiment of evil, including The Prince of Darkness: Evil and the Power of Good in History; Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World; Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages; and Satan: The Early Christian Tradition. Douglas W. Lumsden is currently Assistant Professor of History at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in Medieval History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.