A History of Christian Thought

Résumé du livre

With the brilliant scholarship that enabled his first volume to win the enthusiasm of both professional and aly readers, Dr. McGiffert has authentically set forth the amazing drama behind the development of Christian ideology in the most important years of its formulation. In this second volume, he has expertly recorded the interplay of personality and doctrine, the adaptation of spiritual values to the changing environment of the medieval world, bringing the remarkable story down to the miracle of Protestantism. In this second volume, some of the greatest men the church has known appear-Tertullian, Augustine, Gregory, Anselm, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Francis of Assisi, Eckhart, and Erasmus. Blended with genuine scholarship in church history is the essence of life in an age almost inexplicable to the modern mind.