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history painting
history painting the painting of scenes from classical and Christian history and mythology. It was taught in the academies of art , from the Renaissance to the 19th cent., as the highest form of art in an hierarchical grouping that ranked still-life painting lowest on the list. Included in the... Read more |
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Sextus Julius Africanus
Sextus Julius Africanus , c.160-c.240, Christian historian. He wrote Chronologia, a history of the world from the creation to 221. Tying together the events of the Old Testament, the Greek world, and Christianity, this history helped to place the new religion in a historical context.... Read more |
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Frederick John Foakes-Jackson
Frederick John Foakes-Jackson 1855-1941, English theologian and church historian. A fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1886, he was lecturer there from 1882 and dean from 1895 to 1916. From 1916 to 1934 Foakes-Jackson was Briggs professor of Christian institutions at Union Theological... Read more |
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Harry Elmer Barnes
Harry Elmer Barnes 1889-1968, American historian and sociologist, b. Auburn, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1918 and taught economics, sociology, and history at various institutions of higher learning, notably at the New School for Social Research. His wide interests generally centered... Read more |
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Eunapius
Eunapius , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His continuation of Dexippus' history is lost. Like many Neoplatonists he opposed Christianity.... Read more |
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Henry Hart Milman
Henry Hart Milman 1791-1868, English clergyman, poet, and historian, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, from 1849. He was the author of several dramatic poems as well as some important historical works. His History of the Jews (1830) was the first work of English theology to subject the Bible... Read more |
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oral history
oral history compilation of historical data through interviews, usually tape-recorded and sometimes videotaped, with participants in, or observers of, significant events or times. Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written... Read more |
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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley 1733-1804, English theologian and scientist. He prepared for the Presbyterian ministry and served several churches in England as pastor but gradually rejected orthodox Calvinism and adopted Unitarian views. His Essay on Government (1768) suggested the idea of "the greatest... Read more |
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Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce , 1866-1952, Italian philosopher, historian, and critic. He lived mostly in Naples, devoting himself to studying and writing. He founded and edited (1903-44) Critica, a review of literature, history, and philosophy, which in 1944 became Quaderni della critica. Croce was made a... Read more |
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Arthur Meier Schlesinger , 1888-1965, American historian, b. Xenia, Ohio. After teaching at Ohio State Univ. and the State Univ. of Iowa, he was a professor of history (1924-54) at Harvard and in 1928 became an editor of the New England Quarterly. His well-known works in the field of colonial... Read more |
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The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History.(Review)
The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. By Rodney Stark. (Princeton...historians, scholars of early Christianity and late antiquity, and ecclesiastical...the class basis of early ... |
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The Rise of Christianity. A Sociologist Reconsiders History
The Rise of Christianity. A Sociologist Reconsiders History. By Rodney Stark. (Princeton...surrounding the early history of Christianity, many have undertaken the...monumental Mission and Expansion of ... |
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The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History.
...and from Western history. The question of how Christianity managed this takeover...leading American sociologist of religion, draws...to investigate Christianity's early years...problem of the rise of Christianity as a set of ... |
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COMPETITION SEEMS TO STRENGTHEN FAITH, SOCIOLOGIST ASSERTS
...differences within the Catholic Church, sociologist Rodney Stark of the University of Washington...Stark, the author of the 1996 book ``The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History,'' says the principle that ... |
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Readings at the Intersection of Culture and Faith Why Bother with Belief?
...the Gods: The History of the War between...Reimagining Christianity. Reconnect...arguing that the rise of Christianity was a cultural...inclusivity. When Christianity itself came...Christianity. A ... |
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Bookshelf.(brief descriptions)(Fall Books)
...refers to church history and church teaching...the sources. The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History, by Rodney...reconstruct the rise of Christianity from 40 to 300...to ... |
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Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance.(Review)
...accommodating wing of Christianity, enabling them to claim...more contentious form of Christianity dominating the church...and Rodney Stark's The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History ... |
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Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion.(Review)
...heathen giant. Religious history is full of Davids and Goliaths...Rodney Stark (1996, The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History) wrote a convincing sociological...That marginal sect became ... |
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QUOTES IN THE NEWS
"I believe the human mind works pretty much the same everywhere and in all times." Rodney Stark, sociologist writing in "The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History." |
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