For 2,000 years the Christian churches have developed, disagreed
with each other, and divided into separate and often hostile
factions. This book, written by a distinguished Church historian,
explores the theological lessons to be learnt from this difficult
history.
The author identifies a recurring historic tendency to identify
the Christian life with one or another specific means to holiness,
such as ascetic discipline, martyrdom, or the cult of the
Eucharist. He examines how historians of Christianity gradually
came to terms with the idea that the Church could change, and even
lapse into serious error. He also shows how historical perspective
has played a key role in many of the most important theologies of
the past 100 years. The book concludes that a living Christianity
is never absolutely timeless, and that we can only ever perceive a
facet of its total revelation, conditioned as we are by our own
historical and cultural context.
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