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Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christia
C Armstrong
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Description for Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christia
Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and the faith was only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants. Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see beyond modern caricatures of the ... Read more
Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and the faith was only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants. Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see beyond modern caricatures of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ada, MI, United States
ISBN
9781587433788
SKU
V9781587433788
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Ref
99-50
About C Armstrong
Chris R. Armstrong (PhD, Duke University) is a program fellow on the Faith, Work, and Economics team at the Kern Family Foundation in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He was the founding director of Opus: The Art of Work at Wheaton College and formerly served as professor of church history at Bethel Seminary. He is also senior editor of Christian History.
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