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The road from Eden : studies in Christianity and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barber, John, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bethesda : Academica Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Christianity and culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Early church
  • Christianity, the champion of culture more than conquerors
  • Christianity, the absorber of culture early Christian art
  • A marketplace of cults
  • Paganism and the church fathers
  • The middle ages: Christianity, the preserver and definer of culture
  • The church and a culture of synthesis
  • Gothic architecture and scholastic method : a study in argumentation
  • Christianity, the divider of culture the deconstruction of culture and other spiritual trends
  • The Renaissance: Christianity, the reviver of culture
  • The Christian Renaissance of European culture
  • Humanism, religion, and culture
  • Christian and classical beginnings of Renaissance art
  • The high Renaissance
  • The Reformation: Christianity, the transformer of culture
  • The cultural impact of the Reformation
  • Calvins development of vocation
  • The Reformation of the arts
  • The counter-Reformation: Christianity, the manipulator of culture
  • The Baroque period whom to glorify?
  • The Modern era
  • Christianity, the decipherer of culture
  • Remonstrants, reason, and Enlightenment : a process of legitimization
  • The Enlightenment and the theological breakdown of cultural mission
  • The decentralization of God in the art and politics of the age of reason
  • Christianity, the Savior of culture
  • The romantic revival of Christianity
  • Romanticism : form and meaning
  • Christian romanticism in America
  • Christianity, the abandoner of culture
  • The modern age : dissolution and re-investiture of the Christian cultural witness
  • Christianity, the participant in culture
  • The Dutch contribution: Abraham Kuyper and Klass Schilder
  • Today and tomorrow
  • Christianity, the builder of culture
  • Toward a theological framework for the future
  • Dominion and the Imago dei
  • Love and the cultural task
  • The work of culture
  • Sonship, spiritual warfare, and the keeping of culture
  • Eschatology and life with a purpose.