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Origins of Christendom in the West by Alan Kreider

For well over a millennium the civilization of Western Europe was 'Christendom,' with Christianity the dominant religion, buttressed by social and legal structures. This volume studies Christendom at its origins, bringing the insights of leading scholars in the fields of ancient history, theology, patristics, and liturgy to bear on aspects of Europe's Christianization. From a missiological perspective, the contributors ask what is Christianity's impact upon culture, what is culture's impact upon Christianity? Focusing on the first four centuries, but also looking forward to the future of Christianity in the West, this book combines scholarly excellence with accessibility. It will be valued by scholars and students alike.

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"This is an important book . . . stimulating and scholarly."--Theology
"The book has many strengths...[including] footnotes which include interaction with recent scholarship, the index and list of contributors enhance the value of the book" --Themelios
"A beautiful volume of collected essays...The result is a thought-provoking book: a collection of surveys of Christianity in the West in the first centuries of its existence, all addressing a specific research question, all chronologically covering the same substantial period but all doing this from a different viewpoint. To this can be added that the essays are invariably of high quality and written in an engaging style. The result is a very accessible book that can serve very well as supplementary reading for a course of Early Church History." Johan Leemans, Faculty of Theology, Leuven, Belgium, Heythrop Journal * Heythrop Journal *

About Alan Kreider

Dr Alan Kreider was Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Regentas Park College, Oxford, and now teaches at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Indiana.

Introduction, Alan Kreider. Part 1 Aspects of conversion: changing patterns of conversion in the West, Alan Kreider; Christianization and conversion in nothern Italy, Ritz Lizzi; Christianity shaped through its mission, Ramsay MacMullen. Part 2 Change and community in the Christianization of Europe: the sociology of pre-Constantine Christianity, Wolfgang Wischmeyer; early Christian features preserved in Western monasticism, Eoin de Bhaldraithe, OCist; charism and office in a changing church, Christine Trevett; women in the Christianization of the West, Anne Jensen. Part 3 Liturgy and Christian formation in the advent of Christendom: catechesis and initiation, Everett Ferguson; the effects of the coming of Christendom on early Christian worship, Paul F. Bradshaw; Augustine and the transformation of baptism, David F. Wright. Part 4 Theology and inculturation: defining heresy, Rowan Williams; comparative inculturations, Antoni Wessels. Part 5 Final thoughts: epilogue - approaching Christendom, Kate Cooper.

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Origins of Christendom in the West by Alan Kreider

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Alan Kreider

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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2001-10-01

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388

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