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5 results for “Medieval Church”
Clear searchSamuel G. Green · Historical survey · 1904
Of the several church histories I have read, A Handbook of Church History remains one of the best. Green handles an enormous sweep of people, events, doctrines, and institutions with unusual clarity, yet d…
View recommendation →Edward Burman · Historical survey · 1984
…It is disturbing history, but necessary history for understanding what can happen when a church claims the power to compel belief. The history of the Inquisitions is heavily disputed, and both sensational legends and defensive revisions can distort the evidence. Treat this as a…
View recommendation →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
I recommend Bede because he brings the early English Church out of abstraction and fills it with people, places, journeys, decisions, failures, and acts of courage. His history shows how the gospel crossed cultures and kingdoms, how political…
View recommendation →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…pirit The question becomes especially urgent when extraordinary behaviour occurs inside a church and is attributed to the Holy Spirit. Beginning in 1994, the movement known as the Toronto Blessing attracted visitors from around the world to the Toronto Airport Vineyard church. Pe…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…angelical deformations—secret-key religion, escape rhetoric, elite conversion status, and churchless faith—but fails when it becomes a historical genealogy or a substitute for doctrinal argument. Imagine a Christian whose faith is assembled from prophecy videos, private impressio…
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