{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Readings in the history of Christian theology \/ Vol. 1 [edited by] William C. Placher.","author":"Placher, W.  C.","isbn":"0664240577","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster Press"},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents\tV. 1. From its beginnings to the eve of the Reformation.\r\n\r\nAbstract\tVolume 1: William C. Placher compiles significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers through the early sixteenth century. It contains excerpts preceded by the author's illuminating introductions so that the book can stand alone as a coherent history. Rather than institutional history, the book focuses on ideas presented from an ecumenical perspective.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia, Pa.\n\nPhysical description: 204p. 23 cm","bookEdition":"1st ed. Vol. 1","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Readings in the history of Christian theology. Vol. 2, From the Reformation to the present.","author":"Placher, W. C.","isbn":"0664240585","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster Press, cop."},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: From the Reformation to the present.\r\n\r\nAbstract:  William C. Placher begins with a decisive transition, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and opens with an excerpt from Martin Luther's The freedom of a Christian. From the sixteenth century into the twentieth, he presents significant selections from works of the principal Protestant and Catholic thinkers. Quoted passages are accompanied by Placher's illuminating introductions. Placher adopts an ecumenical approach, representing diverse traditions. He focuses on ideas rather than on the history of institutions. Bibliographies enhance the value of this work as a theological resource.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia, Pa.\n\nPhysical description: 213p.","bookEdition":"Vol. 2","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Silent fire : an invitation to Western mysticism \/ edited by Walter Holden Capps and Wendy M. Wright.","author":"Capps, Walter H.; Wright, Wendy M.","isbn":"0060613149","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harper & Row"},"datePublished":"1978","inLanguage":"English","description":"The founding fathers -- The twelfth century, spiritual formation and monastic reform -- The poetic vision of the thirteenth century, the spirit of the friars -- The mystic flowering of fourteenth-century England -- The Rhineland and the Netherlands, beyond God to the Godhead -- The Italian mystic Renaissance, the two Catherines -- The Reformation, new dimensions of Christian spirituality -- Spain in the sixteenth century, anatomies of the inner life -- The surrender of the will, seventeenth-century France -- Modern and contemporary masters of the contemplative life.\n\nPublished in: San Francisco\n\nPhysical description: x, 262 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Story of Christianity : The Reformation to the present day \/ Justo L. Gonza\u0301lez.","author":"Gonza\u0301lez, J. L.","isbn":"0060633166","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harper & Row"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"Beginning with the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, this second volume of The Story of Christianity continues narrative history to the present. Historian Justo Gonzalez brings to life the people, dramatic events, and shaping ideas of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy during this period, keynoting crucial theological developments while providing fresh understanding of the social, political, and economic forces that influenced the formation of the church. In particular, the author notes recurring themes of unrest, rebellion, and reformation. Gonzalez presents an illuminating record of the lives, impelling ideas, and achievements of such prominent figures as Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin--movers and shapers in the emerging Protestant church. His biographical insights, in conjunction with vivid historical accounts, reveal how individual lives mirror and clarify core theological concerns and developments. The interpretive overview of The Story ofChristianity includes a thorough and timely analysis of the growth and maturation of Christianity, including events in Europe, the United States, and Latin America--the latter an area too often neglected in church histories, yet increasingly vital to an understanding of Christianity's historical development, present situation, and future, options. Gonzalez's richly textured study discusses the changes and directions of the church in the traditions of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Eastern Christianity. The Story of Christianity covers such recent occurrences as the World Council of Churches, the Second Vatican Council, the movement toward Christian unity, and much more. It concludes with a thoughtful look at the major issues and debates involving Christians today.\n\nPublished in: San Francisco\n\nPhysical description: xii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":"1st ed. ; v. 2.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Cambridge companion to Reformation theology \/ edited by David Bagchi and David C. Steinmetz.","author":"Bagchi, David V.","isbn":"0521776627","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Cambridge University Press"},"datePublished":"2004","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: U.K\n\nPhysical description: 289 s.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Cambridge history of the Bible.","author":"Ackroyd, Peter R.","isbn":"0521074185","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":": Cambridge University Press"},"datePublished":"1969","inLanguage":"English","description":"v. 1. From the beginnings to Jerome \/ edited by P.R. Ackroyd -- v. 2. The West from the fathers to the Reformation \/ edited by G.W.H. Lampe -- v. 3. The West, from the Reformation to the present day \/ edited by S.L. Greenslade. \r\n \tAbstract\tVolume 1 of the Cambridge History of the Bible concerns the earliest period down to Jerome and takes as its central theme the process by which the books of both Testaments came into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and the use of canonical writings in the early church. Volume 2 of the Cambridge History treats the Bible as a central document of Western civilization, a source of exegesis and of doctrine, an influence on education, on the growth of scholarship, on art and literature, as well as on the liturgy and the life of the Christian church and its members. This volume commences the study of the Bible in the West. It begins with Jerome and the Fathers and goes on to the time of Erasmus. Introductory chapters look back and rapidly survey the growth of the biblical canon in the pre-Christian period and the early church, and early Christian book-production. The central portion of the volume discusses exposition and exegesis of the Scriptures: in the hands of the Fathers, in the Medieval Schools, in the Liturgy and in the tradition of medieval Jewish scholarship. The permeation of European culture by the Scriptures is illustrated by themes in art and manuscript illustration, and by separate sections on each of the main vernacular languages, giving special attention to English. Each chapter is written by a scholar and expert on the subject, who summarizes existing knowledge and, in many cases, advances it by reporting his own research. Volume 3 covers the effects of the Bible on the history of the West between the Reformation and the publication of the New English Bible\n\nPublished in: NEWYORK\n\nPhysical description: 3 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm","bookEdition":"Vol. 2","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The church and the fine arts : an anthology of pictures, poetry, music, and stories portraying the growth and development of the church through the centuries \/ by Cynthia Pearl Maus, in collaboration with John P. Cavarnos [and others].","author":"Maus, C. P.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harper & Brothers"},"datePublished":"1960","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tIntroduction. Poem: God builds no churches \/ Edgar A. Guest. -- Part I. The apostolic church of the palestinian area \/ by Cynthia Pearl Maus. -- Part II. The Eastern Orthodox Church \/ by John P. Cavarnos. -- Part III. The Roman Catholic Church \/ by Jean Louise Smith. -- Part IV. The Protestant Reformation in Europe \/ by Ronald E. Osborn. -- Part V. The Protestant Church in North America \/ by Alfred T. DeGroot. -- Part VI. Christianity, a world-wide religion \/ by Cynthia Pearl Maus. \r\n \r\nAbstract:\tDiscusses Christianity which is brought to life through literature, poetry, music.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: vi, 902 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The other Bonhoeffer : an Evangelical reassessment of Dietrich Bonhoeffer \/ Georg Huntemann ; translated by Todd Huizinga.","author":"Huntemann, G.","isbn":"0801043824","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Books"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"1. Bonhoeffer's life and thought -- Challenged by a revolution -- Concern with the \"big picture\" -- Breaking out of the closed system -- 2. Bonhoeffer's church -- Bonhoeffer as antirevolutionary -- Modernist theology's claim to Bonhoeffer's thought -- Bonhoeffer as Christ-mystic -- Bonhoeffer as reformational Christian -- 3. The decline of Christianity and religionless Christ-mysticism -- World come of age -- The religious perversion of Christianity -- Bonhoeffer's real Christ-mysticism -- 4. Biblical revelation in Babylonian captivity -- Bonhoeffer and historical-critical methodology -- Earth without a Heaven? -- Bonhoeffer's theology of revelation -- 5. The power and powerlessness of God -- The powerlessness of God -- God's substitutionary presence on Earth -- On the end of time \r\n6. Christian existence as concrete truth -- Discipleship -- Living according to the Sermon on the Mount -- Discipleship and community -- 7. Bonhoeffer's ethics of order -- The dissolution of all values -- Revealed ethos -- The biblical ethos and this world -- 8. Bonhoeffer in the resistance -- The National Socialist Revolution -- The state under God's grace -- 9. Bonhoeffer and the established Protestant church -- Bonhoeffer's Christ-mystical church -- Bonhoeffer's striving for community -- The secularized church -- The confessing church -- 10. Unity in the church and peace in the world -- Peace and justice -- No unity without truth.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 342 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The story of Christianity : complete in one volume : the early Church to the present day \/ Justo L. Gonza\u0301lez.","author":"Gonza\u0301lez, J. L","isbn":"1565635221","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Prince Press"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"The fullness of time -- The church in Jerusalem -- Mission to the Gentiles -- First conflicts with the state -- Persecution in the second century -- The defense of the faith -- The deposit of the faith -- The teachers of the church -- Persecution in the third century -- Christian life -- The great persecution and the final victory -- Constantine -- Official theology : Eusebius of Caesarea -- The monastic reaction -- The schismatic reaction : Donatism -- The Arian controversy and the Council of Nicea -- The pagan reaction : Julian the Apostate -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- The great Cappadocians -- Ambrose of Milan -- John Chrysostom -- Jerome -- Augustine of Hippo -- The end of an era -- The new order -- Eastern Christianity -- Imperial restoration and continuing decay -- Movements of renewal -- The offensive against Islam -- The golden age of medieval Christianity -- The collapse -- In quest of reformation -- Renaissance and humanism -- Spain and the new world -- The Portuguese enterprise -- The call for reformation -- Martin Luther : pilgrimage to reformation -- Luther's theology -- An uncertain decade -- Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation -- The Anabaptist movement -- John Calvin -- The Reformation in Great Britain -- Further developments within Lutheranism -- The Reformation in the low countries -- Protestantism in France -- The Catholic Reformation -- A convulsed age -- An age of dogma and doubt -- The Thirty Years' War -- The church of the desert -- The Puritan revolution -- Catholic orthodoxy -- Lutheran orthodoxy -- Reformed orthodoxy -- The Rationalist option -- The Spiritualist option -- The Pietist option -- The thirteen colonies -- Political horizons : the United States -- Political horizons : Europe -- Political horizons : Latin America -- Protestant theology -- Catholic theology -- Geographic expansion -- An age of drastic change -- Eastern Christianity -- Roman Catholic Christianity -- Protestantism in Europe -- Protestantism in the United States -- From the ends of the earth. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Peabody, MA\n\nPhysical description: 2 volumes in 1 (xviii, 429, xii, 414 pages) : illu","bookEdition":"Prince Press edition.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The story of christianity \/ Justo L Gonzalez.","author":"Gonza\u0301lez, J.L","isbn":"0060633158","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Haper"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"The reformation to the present day v.2.\n\nPublished in: sanfrancisco\n\nPhysical description: xviii, 429 p.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}