The word of God, Jesus Christ, and the Eucharist: Christian hope in a secularised world
In 1996 the American sociologist, Rodney Stark, published a provocative sociological study called The Rise of Christianity. He wrote this book because his reading of the work of the historians of early Christianity showed that their history was good, but their sociology was nonexistent. He minimalis...
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| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2016, Volume: 93, Issue: 3, Pages: 310-325 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CA Christianity CH Christianity and Society |
| Summary: | In 1996 the American sociologist, Rodney Stark, published a provocative sociological study called The Rise of Christianity. He wrote this book because his reading of the work of the historians of early Christianity showed that their history was good, but their sociology was nonexistent. He minimalised many theories about the rise of Christianity. Theologians and church historians regularly point to the transforming effect of the purity of the doctrine, the teaching of the resurrection, the blood of the martyrs, a sacramental life, and other such central Christian beliefs and phenomena as the reasons for its rapid spread in the Roman Empire. Stark questions this, insisting that the fundamental motivation for the phenomenon was that the Christians cared for one another, especially their women. |
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| Item Description: | "This paper was delivered as a contribution to the International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu, the Philippines, on 25 January 2016." (Angabe in der Fußnote) |
| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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