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The age of the spirit : how the ghost of an ancient controversy is shaping the church / Phyllis Tickle, with Jon M. Sweeney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tickle, Phyllis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holy Spirit--History of doctrines.
- Holy Spirit.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids : Baker Books, 2014.
- Contents:
- The back story
- Part 1. Holy ideas in unholy conflict. Beginning at the beginning
- An ancient conversation in our shifting times
- The great enigma
- The great enigma and our grandest heresy
- Meetings of the minds
- A confusion of creeds
- A tintack and the mighty machine
- The conversation redux
- Part 2. Matters of the spirit. Credo : a most dangerous word
- Breath, bread, and beards
- An act of moral fratricide
- Joachim of Fiore and the dawning of a new age
- The agency of change
- Enter the followers of the prophet Muhammad
- The simmering pot
- Steam rising
- The front story
- Appendix A: Other major heresies
- Appendix B: The ecumenical councils
- Appendix C: Some informing differences between Western and Eastern Christian practice
- Appendix D: A few words from the Greek.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801014808
- 9780801014802
- OCLC:
- 845516201
- Publisher Number:
- 99956958921
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