The Word made flesh : a history of Christian thought / Margaret R. Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Margaret R. (Margaret Ruth), 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal--History.

Theology, Doctrinal.

History.

Incarnation--History of doctrines.

Incarnation.

Physical Description:

xv, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "over 150 visuals to support the theories and examples discussed throughout the volume." -- p. [4] of cover. CD-ROM also contains discography of musical examples (see p. [xiv]).

Contents:

The Christian movement in the second and third centuries

Inclusions and exclusions : the fourth century

Fleshing out the Word : medieval Christianity East and West

The voice of the pages : incarnation and hierarchy in the medieval West interlude

Death and the body in the fourteenth-century West

The suffering body of Christ : the fifteenth century

Re-forming the body of Christ : the sixteenth century, part 1

Reforming the body of Christ : the sixteenth century, part 2

Rationalism and religious passion : the seventeenth century

Keeping body and soul together : eighteenth-century Christianity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [392]-413) and index.

ISBN:

1405108452

1405108460

OCLC:

54530408