By R. Po-chia Hsia
История Христианства с древнейших времен до наших дней...
The first of the 9 quantity The Cambridge background of Christianity sequence, Origins to Constantine offers a complete review of the basic occasions, folks, areas and concerns enthusiastic about the emergence of the Christian faith within the Mediterranean global within the first 3 centuries. Over thirty essays written via scholarly specialists hint this dynamic historical past from the time of Jesus via to the increase of Imperial Christianity within the fourth century. It presents considerate and well-documented analyses of the varied different types of Christian neighborhood, identification and perform that arose inside of a long time of Jesus’ demise, and which via missionary efforts have been quickly implanted in the course of the Roman Empire. Origins to Constantine examines the particular features of Christian teams in each one nation-state as much as the top of the 3rd century, whereas additionally exploring the advance of the institutional kinds, highbrow practices and theological formulations that might mark Christian historical past in next centuries.
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14 Historians now include Luther in their assessment of the Reformation as a ‘new monasticism’15 insofar as it sought to inspire all clergy and laity to lead an intentionally religious life in the world. 16 Luther rejected much of scholastic theology, to be sure, but he was also well trained by his Nominalist teachers and steeped in the works of Augustine (354–430) whom he consulted as he prepared his early lectures. Apart from what he explicitly rejected, however, scholars have not been able to determine exactly how the theology that undergirded Luther’s reforms was shaped by Nominalism, Augustine, medieval Augustinian theologians, or even by medieval mysticism.
31 Hendrix, Luther and the papacy, p. 62 and p. 173, n. 74. 60–3. 33 Verhandlungen mit D. M. 10–13, 17–19. 13 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 s cott h e n d r i x The conflict with Rome can be oversimplified because its outcome is well known and it wove together many strands – personal, political, religious, and theological – that are difficult to unravel. Nevertheless, the roots of the Reformation and of its significance for the history of Christianity lie buried in the fabric of that conflict and not simply in the head of Luther or in alleged deformities of the late medieval church.
71–2. 3 Fabian, Die Entstehung des Schmalkaldischen Bundes, pp. 358, line 17; p. 359, line 6. 21 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 t h o m a s a . b r a dy The fruit of these measures was the Protestant state-church. As most of the changes in religious practice, personnel, and belief were illegal, the rulers required divine authority for them, which the evangelical clergy happily supplied, as they placed themselves almost without reservation under princely and magisterial authority.