Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 373 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781800102774
,
9781783276271
Serie:
Studies in modern British religious history volume 45
Inhalt:
Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which, according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed everywhere, at all times and by all people - is itself an act of faith: to reconcile it with the historical fact of persistent division and plurality requires a constant effort. It also requires a variety of strategies, from confrontation and exclusion, through deliberate choices as to what is forgotten or ignored, to creative or even indulgent inclusion. In this volume, seventeen leading historians of Christianity ask how the ideal of unity has clashed, negotiated, reconciled or coexisted with the historical reality of diversity, in a range of historical settings from the early Church through the Reformation era to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These essays hold the huge variety of the Christian experience together with the ideal of orthodoxy, which Christians have never (yet) fully attained but for which they have always striven; and they trace some of the consequences of the pursuit of that ideal for the history of Christianity.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jan 2024)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781783276271
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781783276271
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Festschrift
