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6 results for “Medieval history”
Clear searchEdward Burman · Historical survey · 1984
…us conviction, political authority, fear, and coercion became entangled. 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 le…
View recommendation →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
…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 and ecclesiastical interests became entangled, and how fragile the planting of churches could be. It is both a major…
View recommendation →Samuel 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 does not flatten the story into heroes on one side a…
View recommendation →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
Have Evangelicals Become Neo-Gnostics? History, Heresy, and the Temptation of Private Christianity The accusation identifies real evangelical deformations—secret-key religion, escape rhetoric, elite conversion status, and churchl…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…her review Euripides, The Bacchae. Lynneth Miller Renberg, “Divine Punishment or Disease? Medieval and Early Modern Approaches to the 1518 Strasbourg Dancing Plague”. Encyclopaedia Iranica, “Ḏekr”, on remembrance, group recitation, and ecstasy in Sufi traditions. Rachel Harris, “…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…ecognise that the Qur'an occupies an extraordinary place in Arabic literary and religious history. Conceding that costs Christianity nothing. The question is not whether the Qur'an can be beautiful or powerful. The question is whether its quality is demonstrably beyond human prod…
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