Original Bishops

Author : Alistair C. Stewart
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441245707
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Original Bishops written by Alistair C. Stewart and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jesus Creed 2015 Book of the Year This work provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices. Alistair Stewart, a leading authority on early Christianity and a meticulous scholar, provides essential groundwork for historical and theological discussions. Stewart refutes a long-held consensus that church offices emerged from collective leadership at the end of the first century. He argues that governance by elders was unknown in the first centuries and that bishops emerged at the beginning of the church; however, they were nothing like bishops of a later period. The church offices as presently known emerged in the late second century. Stewart debunks widespread assumptions and misunderstandings, offers carefully nuanced readings of the ancient evidence, and fully interacts with pertinent secondary scholarship.

Author : Alistair Stewart-Sykes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781441248435
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Original Bishops written by Alistair Stewart-Sykes and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading authority on early Christianity provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices, offering careful readings of the ancient evidence.

Author : Hugh Nibley
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 : 9781590383896
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity written by Hugh Nibley and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Harline
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130546
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bishop's Tale written by Craig Harline and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing book takes us back to the busy, colorful world of a Netherlandish Catholic bishop and his flock during the age of Reformation. It is drawn from a rare journal, one of many kept by Mathias Hovius from 1596 to 1620 while he was Archbishop of Mechelen (part of modern Belgium). Elegantly written, the book focuses not only on the life of Mathias Hovius but also on key events and characters of his time; it portrays “lived religion,” so that we see people from all sides getting involved in the constant negotiation of what it meant to be a good Catholic. Craig Harline and Eddy Put recreate the eventful life and times of Mathias Hovius—a world in which other-believers were outright heretics, the nagging fevers of old age were the result of unbalanced bodily humors, and a corruptible earth rested motionless at the center of the universe while God sat exalted on a throne just beyond the fixed stars. The authors also tell the stories of monks, nuns, priests, millers, pilgrims, peasant women, saints, town and village councils, and ordinary parishioners; each story, fascinating in its own right, illustrates a major theme in the history of the Catholic Reformation. In the end Harline and Put have painted a picture teeming with life and energy.

Author : J. Barry Vaughn
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318119
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules written by J. Barry Vaughn and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama’s cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational minority in the state The consensus of southern historians is that, since the Second Great Awakening, evangelicalism has dominated the South. This is certainly true when one considers the extent to which southern culture is dominated by evangelical rhetoric and ideas. However, in Alabama one non-evangelical group has played a significant role in shaping the state’s history. J. Barry Vaughn explains that, although the Episcopal Church has always been a small fraction (around 1 percent) of Alabama’s population, an inordinately high proportion, close to 10 percent, of Alabama’s significant leaders have belonged to this denomination. Many of these leaders came to the Episcopal Church from other denominations because they were attracted to the church’s wide degree of doctrinal latitude and laissez-faire attitude toward human frailty. Vaughn argues that the church was able to attract many of the state’s governors, congressmen, and legislators by positioning itself as the church of conservative political elites in the state--the planters before the Civil War, the “Bourbons” after the Civil War, and the “Big Mules” during industrialization. He begins this narrative by explaining how Anglicanism came to Alabama and then highlights how Episcopal bishops and congregation members alike took active roles in key historic movements including the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement. Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules closes with Vaughn’s own predictions about the fate of the Episcopal Church in twenty-first-century Alabama.

Author : E. J. Burford
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780719816574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bishop's Brothels written by E. J. Burford and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of contemporary source material, a fascinating social history of how commercial sex has been bought and sold in London for more than 1,000 years. The Bankside Brothels, or "stewes," were a celebrated feature of London life since Roman times. Located on the south side of the River Thames, in the Bishop of Winchester's "Liberty of the Clink," they were a highly lucrative source of revenue for the Church. In AD 1161 a royal decree ordered that these establishments be licensed and regulated. For many years they attracted the great and the not-so-good, helping to make Southwark the "pleasure-garden" of London. But who were the people of the Bankside Brothels? What living conditions did they have to endure? How did women cope with the constant threat of violence, unwanted pregnancy, and venereal disease? The streets of Southwark and those who walked them are vividly brought to life in this richly researched exploration of the history of this stretch of the Thames over the centuries. Through the stories of those who lived and worked in this fascinating part of London, we can begin to gain an understanding of a crucial but hitherto neglected aspect of the social history of England.

Author : Peter F. Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977146185
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bishops at Large written by Peter F. Anson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The independent Catholic movement has branches all over the world and constitutes one of the most interesting and diverse movements in Christian history. Here is the classic history of the various successions claimed by most independent jurisdictions, now back in print after 40 years.

Author : H. A. Drake
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871047
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine and the Bishops written by H. A. Drake and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.

Author : Nicolas Barker
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780810934245
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hortus Eystettensis written by Nicolas Barker and published by Harry N Abrams Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hortus Eystettensis was published in 1613 to document a garden created by the Prince-Bishop of EichstStt which contained all the shrubs and flowering plants known at the time; 367 plates illustrate more than 1,000 species. It was printed from copper engravings in a very large format, and a few of th

Author : David H. Aldred
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624656
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Bishops Cleeve and Woodmancote written by David H. Aldred and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed history of Bishops Cleeve and Woodmancote.