Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates / Marcia L. Colish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colish, Marcia L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptism--History.

Baptism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a wide and interdisciplinary range of sources that goes well beyond the writings of theologians and canonists to include liturgical texts and practices, the rulings of popes and church councils, saints' lives, chronicles, imaginative literature, and poetry, Faith, Fiction and Force in Medieval Baptismal Debates illuminates the emergence.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One. Baptism by Desire""; ""The Age of the Church Fathers""; ""After the Fathers, before the Scholastics""; ""The Twelfth Century: Canonists and Theologians to Mid-Century""; ""The Twelfth Century: Peter Lombard and the Post-Lombardians""; ""The Thirteenth Century""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Two. Fictive Baptism""; ""The Taufmime""; ""The Boys on the Beach""; ""The Age of the Church Fathers""; ""Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Exegetes""; ""The Norman Ruse""; ""Publicists and Canonists""; ""Reenter the Taufmime""

""The Twelfth Century: Theology to Mid-Century""""The Later Twelfth Century: Peter Lombard and the Post-Lombardians""; ""The Thirteenth Century: Theology to Mid-Century""; ""The Mid-Thirteenth to the Early Fourteenth Century""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Three. Forced Baptism""; ""Late Antiquity""; ""Medieval Jews""; ""Preaching with an Iron Tongue: The Carolingians""; ""Only the Saxons?""; ""Preaching with an Iron Tongue: The Baltic Crusades""; ""The View from the Ivory Tower: Canonists in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries""

""The View from the Ivory Tower: Scholastic Theologians to the Early Fourteenth Century""""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-356) and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2612-0

OCLC:

885369248