Outreach and Renewal : A First-Millennium Legacy for the Third-Millennium Church /

This work represemts a novel treatment of the mission of the Church fathers, the early Christian ascetics, and their disciples during the turbulent centuries that followed the passing of the apostles. Approaching a normally arcane subject largely through the interplay of character and incident. Outr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McSherry, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Fathers of the church.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Church history > Middle Ages.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Peres de l'Église.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The fathers and the apostles
  • The two cities : called to serve
  • The spirit of asceticism
  • Martyrs, ascetics, and fathers
  • Humility and truth : testaments of faith
  • Brotherhood and betrayal
  • The sacramental life
  • The power of prayer
  • Defenders of the faith
  • Leo the Great : faith and vision
  • The church and the pagans
  • Renewal and asceticism : Gregory the Great
  • The pope, the abbot, and the Gauls
  • Schism in Italy
  • The wisdom of the ascetics : Benedict, Columban, Cassian
  • Suffering, sin, and forgiveness
  • Dispelling the darkness
  • Aidan, Bede, and Boniface
  • The Carolingians and the two cities
  • The Gregorian reform
  • Anselm : in the steps of the fathers
  • The last of the fathers
  • Finding Jerusalem : sparks from the fire
  • Faith and reason
  • A light not quenched : Bernard and the bishops
  • Epilogue : the legacy of the fathers.

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