Pilgrims and Popes: A Concise History of Pre-Reformation Christianity in the West - Softcover

Brandner, Tobias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532662149 ISBN 13: 9781532662140

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2019

Synopsis

Pilgrims and Popes introduces the foundational fifteen hundred years of the history of Christianity, from Jesus to the eve of the Reformation. The crucial decisions of the first centuries have indelibly shaped the subsequent journey of the Christian faith movement. The book tells how the Christian faith story unfolded in dialectic movements: hegemony and emancipation; institutionalization and protest; petrification and renewal; missionary involvement in the world and separation from the world.
The book bridges the gap between the present and the seemingly remote world of the first fifteen hundred years of Christianity in the West by engaging with present-day readers’ cultures and contexts. The rich material is presented in an easily readable way, combined with charts and with questions for discussion and deepening reflection. This study book will be a welcome learning tool in classrooms and in churches, particularly in the context of the Global South.

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About the Authors

Tobias Brandner (PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland) is a minister of the Swiss Reformed Church and of the Hong Kong Tsung Tsin Mission. For the past twenty years, he has been working in prisons in Europe and Asia--first in Switzerland and since 1997 in Hong Kong. He is also an Assistant Professor of Church History, Missiology, and Ecumenism at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

H. S. Wilson, a church historian and liberation theologian, is executive secretary of the Department of Theology for the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Dr. Judo Poerwowidagdo, a theological educator from Indonesia, is executive secretary for Asia and the Pacific in the Ecumenical Theological Education Programme of the World Council of Churches. Dr. Takatso Mofokeng, a professor of systematic theology at the University of South Africa, is chair of the South African Association of Theological Institutions. Robert A. Evans and Alice Frazer Evans are co-directors of the Plowshares Institute and co-editors of several books of case studies, including 'Christian Ethics' and 'The Globalization of Theological Education'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532662149
• ISBN 13: 9781532662140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316