The Word Made Flesh - A History Of Christian Thought +Cd

• Traces Christian ideas, conversations, experiences and practices from the first century through to the dawn of modernity at the end of the eighteenth century.
  
• Presents an inclusive history, considering the critical roles of women and religious ‘others’– dissenting Christians, Jews and Muslims – in shaping Christian thought.
  
• Sets Christian ideas in the context of conversations, controversies and concrete circumstances.
  
• Demonstrates the importance of liturgical and devotional exercises to the practice of Christianity.
  
• Treats words, images, music and architecture all as primary evidence of Christian traditions.
  
• Is accompanied by a CD Rom containing hundreds of visuals to support the theories and examples discussed throughout the volume.

List of Maps.

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Prelude: Flesh and Word.

1. The Christian Movement in the Second and Third Centuries.

2. Inclusions and Exclusions: The Fourth Century.

3. Fleshing Out the Word: Medieval Christianity East and West.

4. The Voice of the Pages: Incarnation and Hierarchy in the Medieval West.

Interlude.

5. Death and the Body in the Fourteenth-Century West.

6. The Suffering Body of Christ: The Fifteenth Century.

7. Re-forming the Body of Christ: The Sixteenth Century, Part I.

8. Reforming the Body of Christ: The Sixteenth Century, Part 2.

9. Rationalism and Religious Passion: The Seventeenth Century.

10. Keeping Body and Soul Together: Eighteenth-Century Christianity.

Postlude: The Word Made Flesh.

Bibliography.

Index