Urban Legends of Church History : 40 Common Misconceptions.
Urban Legends Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church history, from the period of the early church through the modern age.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
B & H ACADEMIC,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Introduction
- Part I: Urban Legends of the Early Church (50-500)
- 1. The Earliest Christians Worshipped on Saturday
- 2. The Church Apostatized Shortly after the Apostles
- 3. The Sands of the Colosseum Are Stained with the Martyrs' Blood
- 4. The Lord's Supper Was Originally a Love Feast or "Community Meal"
- 5. The Earliest Church Didn't Know the Difference between Orthodoxy and Heresy
- 6. An Emperor, Pope, or Church Council Canonized the Bible
- 7. Pagan Philosophy Contaminated Christian Theology
- 8. The Doctrine of the Trinity Developed Centuries after Jesus
- 9. The Emperor Constantine Made Christianity the Official State Religion
- 10. Women Never Served as Church Officers in the Early Church
- Part II: Urban Legends of the Medieval Period (500-1500)
- 11. Nothing Good Came from the "Dark Ages"
- 12. The Substitutionary Atonement First Appeared in the Middle Ages
- 13. The Roman Catholic Church Ruled Europe with Uniformity
- 14. The Christian Faith Was Lost during the Middle Ages
- 15. The One True Church Went Underground during the Dark Ages
- 16. The Medieval Catholic Church Completely Abandoned Salvation by Grace
- 17. The One True Church Is Marked by an Unbroken Chain of Apostolic Succession
- 18. Abelard and Anselm Debated over the Atonement ... and Anselm Won
- 19. The Eastern and Western Churches Split over Just One Word in the Creed
- 20. The Roman Catholic Church Regularly Burned Heretics at the Stake
- Part III: Urban Legends of the Protestant Era (1500-1700)
- 21. The Protestant Reformers Concocted the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace through Faith
- 22. The Reformers Believed the Bible Was the Only Source for Theology
- 23. The Reformers Were Trying to Restore the Church of the New Testament Era
- 24. The Reformers Removed the Apocrypha from the Bible
- 25. Protestants Don't Accept the Church Councils and Creeds
- 26. The Anabaptists Were the Predecessors of Modern Baptists
- 27. John Calvin Summarized His Theology in "Five Points"
- 28. Jacob Arminius Denied Depravity and Taught That Christians Could Lose Their Salvation
- 29. The King James Version Was the First Authorized Protestant Translation
- 30. The Pilgrims Fled Religious Oppression to Establish a Society of Religious Freedom
- Part IV: Urban Legends of the Modern Age (1700-Present)
- 31. Modern Scholars Were the First to Notice "Problem Passages" in the Bible
- 32. The United States Was Originally a Christian Nation
- 33. Fundamentalists Were the First Christians to Believe in the Inerrancy of Scripture
- 34. None of the American Founding Fathers Were Orthodox Christians
- 35. Christians Took Genesis 1 Literally until Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- 36. Atheism First Threatened the Church in the Modern Era
- 37. The Church Has Never Been as Divided as It Is in the Modern Era