The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

emphasized as to deemphasize his humanity, and the honor shown Mary threatened to displace the worship of Christ. • In liturg ...

Lecture 35: Corruption and the Beginnings of Reform o Predictably, corruption in the system involved sex, money, and power. o Th ...

• John Wyclif (1330–1384) was one of the most important forerunners to the Reformation of the 16th century. He was a philosop ...

Lecture 35: Corruption and the Beginnings of Reform • John Huss (Jan Hus, c. 1372–1415) was born of a Czech peasant family in ...

o When he became rector at San Marco in 1491, Savonarola adopted an apocalyptic style of preaching, condemning the corruption of ...

Lecture 36: The Ever-adapting Religion The Ever-Adapting Religion............................................................ Le ...

• The form of Christianity based in Constantinople became ever more Greek in character and ever more integrally entwined with ...

Lecture 36: The Ever-adapting Religion fresh translations of the Bible and the establishment of Christian institutions in distan ...

Fidelity to the Christian Identity • It is against the backdrop of such observations concerning historical visibility that an ...

Lecture 36: The Ever-adapting Religion Abbey of Cluny and the hierarchical and liturgical dance of life in that monastery. o The ...

o The targets of the reformers were consistent: Scholastic theology, the power of the papacy, the complications of the liturgy a ...

Lecture 36: The Ever-adapting Religion intrigue, perhaps the most authentic history of Christianity is, after all, the history o ...

Bibliography Essential Reading The Cambridge History of Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1, Origins to ...

Bibliography Supplemental Reading Arbeth, J. The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348–1350: A Brief History with Documents. ...

Bloch, M. Feudal Society. Translated by L. A. Manyon. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. A classic and highly i ...

Bibliography Diehl, C. Byzantium: Greatness and Decline. Translated by N. Walford. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1957 ...

Fox, R. L. Pagans and Christians. New York: Knopf, 1987. A readable and responsible account of the relations between Christians ...

Bibliography Holloway, R. R. Constantine and Rome. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Shows that the emperor by no mean ...

Knowles, D. Christian Monasticism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. A survey of the varieties of monastic life by one of the great s ...

Bibliography Malina, B. J. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology. Rev. ed. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1993 ...