Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church
ISBN-13:
9780271030159
ISBN-10:
0271030151
Edition:
1
Author:
William Caferro
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780271030159
ISBN-10:
0271030151
Edition:
1
Author:
William Caferro
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
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Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church (ISBN-13: 9780271030159 and ISBN-10: 0271030151), written by authors
William Caferro, was published by Penn State University Press in 1991.
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A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological “stories” of Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine). The second section examines aspects of ordinary life and explores how Christians related them to religious ideas (the family, hospitality, citizenship, monasticism, and attitudes toward the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West).This very learned piece of work, which reflects lengthy study of original texts as well as of the current and important secondary literature, is distinctive because it does not conform to the present reigning ideology: The author writes as a convinced Christian thinker. He believes that there is no such thing as a purely detached observer and that the best way of being critical and fair is to make no secret of one’s presuppositions, but to face them so as to be able to discount them when necessary. This quality makes the work interesting and suggestive. The book is of importance to scholars and theologians and to all concerned with the early church.
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