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Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church Caferro, William (Vanderbilt Univ.)
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Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church
Caferro, William (Vanderbilt Univ.)
A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological ?stories? of Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine). The second section examines aspects of ordinary life and explores how Christians related them to religious ideas (the family, hospitality, citizenship, monasticism, and attitudes toward the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West).
This very learned piece of work, which reflects lengthy study of original texts as well as of the current and important secondary literature, is distinctive because it does not conform to the present reigning ideology: The author writes as a convinced Christian thinker. He believes that there is no such thing as a purely detached observer and that the best way of being critical and fair is to make no secret of one?s presuppositions, but to face them so as to be able to discount them when necessary. This quality makes the work interesting and suggestive. The book is of importance to scholars and theologians and to all concerned with the early church.
256 pages
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 15 de septiembre de 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271030159 |
| Editores | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Páginas | 256 |
| Dimensiones | 229 × 152 × 17 mm · 390 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |
