Rethinking Christendom: Europe's Struggle for ChristianityGracewing Publishing, 2005 - 246 sider 'If European history is a verdant plain, then Christianity is the river which flows through it. It is a river with various sources: Judaic tradition, oriental faiths, Greek philosophy, Roman law. And it has been broadened by incoming streams over two millennia - Celtic, Germanic, Salv, Finno-Urigc culture; Islam, humanism, Romanticism - embracing and re-directing them, but also being enriched and deepened by them . . .' The failure of the European Union's Constitutional Treaty has raised serious questions about the Continent's future. Christian churches are active in this debate, as social and cultural forces with influence and outreach. But questions are also being asked about the future of Christianity itself, in a region now deeply divided between competing outlooks and visions. Rethinking Christendom explores the background to today's discussions, drawing on views and perspectives from East and West. It shows how Christianity became the essential badge of European-ness, and the universal reference point for societies drawn together by external threats and internal aspirations. While some Europeans see Christianity as a means of liberation, others view it as a barrier to freedom. This book is a plea for a realistic and informed understanding of Christianity's past, present and future role - in a region where all faiths, worldviews and philosophies can and should coexist in a mutual creative harmony. Jonathan Luxmoore is an English freelance journalist and writer, covering church- related news in Europe for Catholic News Service, Ecumenical News International, as well as The Tablet and other newspapers. Jolanta Babiuch is a Polish lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, having previously taught at the Universities of London and Warsaw, where she was a co-founder of Transparency International. The couple have four children and live in Oxford and Warsaw. Their previous books include The Vatican and the Red Flag (1999). |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 38
Side 2
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Side 18
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Side 19
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Side 25
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Side 26
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Beklager, innholdet på denne siden er tilgangsbegrenset..
Innhold
Introduction | 1 |
The Great Divide | 42 |
Death of a Continent | 72 |
Rebirth and Recovery | 101 |
The New Spring of Nations | 132 |
The Millennium Debate | 165 |
Rediscovering the Soul of a Continent | 202 |
233 | |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Anglican atheism believed Britain Cardinal Catholic bishops Catholic Church Catholicism CCEE Centesimus annus century Christ Christian river Christianity's Church leaders civilisation COMECE communism Communist Constantinople Constitution Council countries culture Czech declared democracy dialogue dignity division East European East-West Eastern Europe economic ecumenical encyclical EU's Europe's European Union forces France freedom French Gaudium et Spes German Germany's Gospel Greek human rights ideologies insisted International Islam Italy Jewish Jews John Paul justice liberal Lithuania London Luxmoore Marxism member-states moral Moscow movement Muslims organisations Party Patriarch peace philosopher Pius XII Poland Polish political Pope Pope Pius XII Pope's priests Protestant Quadragesimo Anno radical recognised Redemptor hominis reform regime rejected religion religious Republic Rerum Novarum Revolution Roman Rome rulers Russian secular secularisation Slovakia social socialist society solidarity Soviet spiritual tion tradition Treaty Ukraine Union unity values Vatican Vatican II warned West western workers