This book is purposely called a history of Christianity and not so much a history of the church or church history. As we will note in Chapter I, many of the scriptures have been embraced in Christianity. Scripture is aware of the problems and has a vision that encompasses all time and the entire cosmos.
It begins with a Christian view of the universe and the course of life, especially human life, on this planet. The major part of the book will cover the main outlines of this story as the author imagines it. Originally trained in the natural sciences, he strove to keep abreast of the main findings in some of them, especially geology and astronomy.
No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has made Him known.” Repeatedly, the New Testament writers emphasize that the contradiction must ultimately be overcome.
Christianity Through the Ages by Kenneth Scott Latourette
Pre-Christian History
The fifteen hundred years from 850 BC. 650 included the birth of the last five and notable developments in the first three. Others see in the various forms of religion man's search for the answers to the Unknown or partially Known which they believe or at least hope exists and in which lies the solution of the riddle of their existence and of the world around them. Yet one of the early Christians stated that the prophets inquired diligently about what the
The prophets and Psalm writers were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and throughout history. They regarded Him as the enemy of injustice and the oppression of the poor and humble by the rich and powerful. The cult of the Emperor was added to them, mainly as a means of promoting loyalty to the Empire.
The adherents of each were believed to share symbolically in the death and resurrection of the god and thus gain immortality. What was the fate of the millions who died before the coming of Christ.
The Earthly Life of Him Through Whom Christianity Began
He had learned to read, was a diligent student of the holy books of His people, and worshiped regularly in the place. Yet Jesus had no doubt about the ultimate triumph of good and the destruction of evil. This is all the more important in view of the currents of waves that would soon break out in futile resistance to Rome's rule.
The title given to Him was Christ, the anointed of the Lord, or, in Aramaic and Hebrew, the Messiah. In the day in which Jesus lived, the hope of the early appearance of the Messiah was widespread among the devout Jews. From the records we can be sure that Jesus refused to fit into any of the stereotypes that contemporaries had of the Messiah.
We have a hint of it—and of the continuing internal struggle by which it was confirmed—in the reported sharp rebuke to Peter when it. But he might even then have escaped, and, accompanied by the eleven, gone to the other side of the Jordan to the hills, which were plainly seen by the light of the full Pascal moon.
The Initial Five Centuries of Christianity
Geographic Losses and Spiritual Decay
Partly Offset by Fresh Religious Movements, AD- 1350-1500
Revival, Reform, and Expansion, A.D
In the new age that arose at the end of the fifteenth century, Christianity faced a great. In the early part of the eighteenth century, new religious congregations continued to arise. Deism was first formulated in England in the seventeenth century by laymen, members of the.
In the agitation for independence and the formation of the new nation, democratic ideas were nourished by the radical.
The Nineteenth Century: Mounting Western Domination, with Economic, Intellectual,
In the early part of the nineteenth century all of Spanish America except Cuba and Puerto Rico. One of the answers was to increase the quality and effective power of the papacy. A reaction against the emotionally sterile rationalism of the eighteenth century and related to the ruling.
In Sweden, the workers in the growing industries, despite the revivals, were moving away from the faith. The Church of England was roused from its drowsiness and the deistic infection of the eighteenth century. New church buildings were erected to take care of the growing population, especially in the cities.
The temperance movement brought about a reduction in the heavy drinking of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the course of the nineteenth century revivals disturbed the Church of Scotland, bringing great divisions. In the nineteenth century, the religious life of the principality of Wales rose considerably in quality.
In the North of Ireland, where a significant proportion of the population was of Scottish descent, Presbyterianism was prominent. Most of the skeptical currents eroding the faith of many in Europe were present in the United States. A striking feature of the Protestantism of the United States was the manner in which the.
Christianity, Challenged and
Expanding: The Half-Century Which Followed A.D
A sixth feature of the rising revolution was the rising tide of revolt against Western imperialism and colonialism. Few parts of the world escaped the population explosion brought about by falling death rates. The fate of the Jews in Nazi Germany and in the lands occupied by the Nazis was particularly clear.
Germany was the original source of the Protestant Reformation and was home to some of the most vital movements in both Protestantism and the Roman Catholic Church. The industrial and technological revolution increased secularism in whatever part of the world it was found. More Christian than when Christ died - or even at the beginning of the twentieth century.
He also helped expand the Church and its deeper planting in the non-European world. In Germany, much of the power in the years after World War II came from the Confessing Church (Kirche). In Holland during the Second World War, many Protestants, especially among the clergy, spoke out courageously against the inhumane measures of the occupying Nazis.
Through Zoë, the Bible was widely circulated and the education of the clergy improved. The United States forged the head of the non-communist world and therefore of what was historically Christendom. Although still strong in the declining rural communities, they increasingly moved to the suburbs of the growing cities and were characterized by the attitudes common to the suburbs.
Here there was a lot of fluidity, because changes of residence became characteristic of a larger part of the population. Writings to a modification of these beliefs resulting from adaptation to the intellectual currents of the day. Shortly after World War I, Harry Emerson Fosdick, a Baptist minister, became the focus of the Fundamentalist attack.
