Christianity : A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

作者：LindaWoodhead

出版社：OUPOxford

副标题：AVeryShortIntroduction(VeryShortIntroductions)

出版年：2004-11-25

页数：168

定价：GBP7.99

装帧：Paperback

丛书：VeryShortIntroductions

ISBN：9780192803221

内容简介
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At a time when Christianity is flourishing in the Southern hemisphere but declining in much of the West, thisVery Short Introduction offers an important new overview of the world's largest religion. Exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and tracing its course over two millennia, this book provides a fresh, lively, and candid portrait of its past and present. Addressing topics that other studies neglect, including the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches' uses of power, and their struggles with modernity, Linda Woodhead concludes by showing the ways in which those who previously had the least power in Christianity–women and non-Europeans–have become increasingly central to its unfolding story.

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基督教和罗马帝国的联手，儒家与王权的联姻，都值得进一步深挖，特别是在当今儒家与政府关系回暖的时代

这本很好读，真通识。

极好的入门读物，而作者的宗教立场是值得玩味的。讨论了许多有趣的主题：基督的神性/人性，正统圣经也许只是许多可能的真相的一个版本，church Christianity/biblical Christianity/mythtical Christianity and Quaker，政治与宗教联姻，奥古斯丁的原罪（为什么获得道德和知识被视为the fall of human race，而非人变为成人所…

还算有趣吧，不能期望太高

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