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- Provincializing Christendom: the case of Great Britain
- The insular traditions of British ecclesiastical history have been transformed since the 1960s, when scholars began to pay attention to the theory of secularization, an inherently comparative and global theory of social change. More recently a wave of interest in imperial and colonial history has brought the foreign missionary enterprise...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
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- James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom
- James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 409 pp. $59.95 cloth. In this much anticipated historical monograph, W. B. Patterson eschews traditional generic constraints: as he states, James VI and...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia concludes his review of the book by saying that we are privileged to live in a time that can claim a historian of such distinction.(While We're At It)(The Rise of Western Christendom)(Book Review)
- Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia concludes his review of the book by saying that we are privileged to live in a time that can claim a historian of such distinction. That is a tribute offered by one master historian to another. The book is...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom.(Review) (book review) (book review)
- King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 409. $59.95.) W. B. Patterson is to be commended for writing a book full of surprises about a king who is often regarded...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Crusaders and historians.(Figthing For Christendom: Holy War And The Crusades )(The First Crusade: A New History )(The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople )(Book Review)
- THE FIRST CRUSADE: A NEW HISTORY By Thomas Asbridge Oxford University Press 408 pp. $35. THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE By Johnathan Phillips viking 374 pp. $29.95. FIGTHING FOR CHRISTENDOM: HOLY WAR AND THE CRUSADES By Christopher Tyerman...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Bradshaw, David. Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom
- BRADSHAW, David. Aristotle East and West. Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 279 pp. Cloth, $75.00--Under a wide-ranging title, Professor Bradshaw examines the history of the metaphysical concept of energeia, in an attempt to trace the development of theology in Byzantine Christianity and...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- No time for tears in Copenhagen
- by Bill McKibben COPENHAGEN—I've spent the last few years working more than fulltime to organize the first big global grassroots climate change campaign. That's meant shutting off my emotions most of the time—this crisis is so terrifying that when you let yourself feel too deeply...
- News items 2009-12-14
- God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam.(Review) (book review)
- God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam. By Peter Partner. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 364. $16.95.) This ambitious study is intended to dispel myths about conflicts between Islam, Christendom, and to a lesser extent, Judaism. The author ...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- New Greek Orthodox Jerusalem patriarch enthroned
- JERUSALEM AFP — Theophilos III, the new Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, was enthroned at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, formally replacing the ousted, scandal-clad Irineos I. The lavish ceremony at the holiest site in Christendom, built over where Christians believe Jesus Christ was buried before he ascended...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- Dream Catchers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- DREAM CATCHERS. By PHILIP JENKINS. Oxford University Press. 306pp. $28. The subtitle is "How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality." The author of The Next Christendom and numerous other books on religion and culture does a superb job of demonstrating how Native American spiritualities...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- By Philip Jenkins. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002. Pp. 270. $28. The thesis of this book is that "we are currently living through one of the transforming moments in the history of religion worldwide" (p.1). Philip Jenkins, professor of history and religious...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Cardinal George responds
- Commonweal's piece by William D. Wood misrepresents what I said at the University of Chicago on April 30 ("Back to Christendom," June 17). Mr. Wood places my words in a political context that isn't mine and wasn't referenced in what I said. A few examples will illustrate Wood's caricature of...
- Research articles 2005-07-15
- Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism. - book reviews
- Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism. By Jaroslav Pelikan. Yale University Press, 368 pp., $40.00. CAPPADOCIA WAS the ancient name for eastern Asia Minor, a wild and rugged area that bred horses, sheep, and three of the great fathers...
- Research articles 1994-04-20
- Outlook: Knives out after nightmare on Baker St
- PETER SALSBURY, the new broom at Marks & Spencer, has not been in the hot seat for long, but he is already generating a great deal of noise. In just a few weeks he has managed to squeeze in a calamitous profits warning and now a management re-shuffle. The latter...
- Research articles 1999-02-25
- RUGBY UNION: No holds barred as title fight intensifies
- NOW HERE'S a funny thing: 2,000 people - not 20, not 200, but 2,000 - pitched up at the Stoop Memorial Ground in leafy south-west London the other night to watch Harlequins, once the least businesslike rugby club in Christendom, play a pre-season friendly. As sporting miracles go, it was...
- Research articles 2001-08-30
- Varndell and Moreno stay in thick of fray for Tigers
- There is no pressing reason to feel sorry for Leicester, chasing an unprecedented hat-trick of titles as they are, but only the granite-hearted will not spare a thought for Tom Varndell and Alex Moreno. The fastest wing in European rugby and the owner of the fiercest visage...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America
- Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. Religion in America Series. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xix, 269. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-510452-8.) There is much to recommend John Wigger's study of Methodism in the early...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South, The
- The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. By Philip Jenkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, x + 252 pp., paper $26.00. As Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Philip Jenkins is renowned especially for his The Next Christendom: The Coming...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Lewis of Arabia.(From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East)(Book Review)
- From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East. By Bernard Lewis. Oxford. 352 pp. $28. I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and later Samuel Huntington, designated the "clash of civilizations" between Christendom and Islam up close in at least two wars. One was the...
- Research articles 2004-09-13
- Israelis take more West Bank towns; Egypt cuts direct contact; calls rise for end of siege.(PAGE ONE)
- Byline: Betsy Pisik, THE WASHINGTON TIMES JERUSALEM - Armored Israeli forces drove into three more West Bank towns yesterday and maintained their siege in Bethlehem, ringing one of Christendom's holiest sites as scores of Palestinians fired on them from inside the Church of the...
- Research articles 2002-04-04
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