Two Kingdoms and Two Cities
Title | Two Kingdoms and Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Crouse |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781506421568 |
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Wheaton College, 2016.
The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics
Title | The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Willard Jones |
Publisher | Emmaus Road Publishing |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1645851249 |
The prevailing narrative of human history, given to us as children and reinforced constantly through our culture, is the plot of progress. As the narrative goes, we progressed from tyranny to freedom, from superstition to science, from poverty to wealth, from darkness to enlightenment. This is modernity’s origin myth. Out of it, a consensus has emerged: part of human progress is the overcoming of religion, in particular Christianity, and that the world itself is fundamentally secular. In The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics, Andrew Willard Jones rewrites the political history of the West with a new plot, a plot in which Christianity is true, in which human history is Church history. The Two Cities moves through the rise and fall of empires; cycles of corruption and reform; the rise and fall of Christendom; the emergence of new political forms, such as the modern state, and new political ideologies, such as liberalism and socialism; through the horrible destruction of modern warfare; and on to the plight of contemporary Christians. These movements of history are all considered in light of their orientation toward or away from God. The Two Cities advances a theory of Christian politics that is both an explanation of secular politics and a proposal for Christians seeking to navigate today’s most urgent political questions.
Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms
Title | Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | David VanDrunen |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0802864430 |
Conventional scholarship holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. But David VanDrunen here challenges that status quo through his careful, thoroughgoing exploration of the development of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. - from publisher description.
Two Kingdoms and Two Cities
Title | Two Kingdoms and Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Crouse |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-07-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1506425194 |
The recent emergence of “two kingdoms” and “two cities” approaches to Christian social thinking are shown to have a key—and often unacknowledged—connection to Luther’s reshaping of the Augustinian paradigm. The project works for a better understanding of Luther’s own thought to help understand the convergences and divergences of Christian political theology in the twentieth century and today. In particular, Luther’s two-kingdom thinking issued forth in a strong distinction of law and gospel that was also worked out in twofold pairs of Israel and church, general and special revelation, creation and redemption, and especially the outward and inward life. The work traces this legacy through acceptance and modification by Niebuhr and Bonhoeffer, Lutheran and Catholic neoconservatives, Reformed two-kingdom proponents, Augustinian liberals, and finally Oliver O’Donovan. The conclusion reflects on both the historical narrative and its connection to an account of modern liberalism, as well as a theological reflection on hermeneutical decisions of the “twoness” of Christian theology.
Reformation Study Bible-ESV
Title | Reformation Study Bible-ESV PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Charles Sproul |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1994 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781596382428 |
More than fifty scholars, under R. C. Sproul, collaborated to produce this study Bible to help readers understand the great doctrines of the Christian faith. Published by Ligonier Ministries, trade distribution by P&R Publishing.
The Two Cities
Title | The Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Barber |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2004-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134687516 |
First published to wide critical acclaim in 1992, The Two Cities has become an essential text for students of medieval history. For the second edition, the author has thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking the historiography of the past decade into account. The Two Cities covers a colourful period from the schism between the eastern and western churches to the death of Dante. It encompasses key topics such as: the Crusades the expansionist force of the Normans major developments in the way kings, emperors and Popes exercised their powers a great flourishing of art and architecture the foundation of the very first universities. Running through it all is the defining characteristic of the high Middle Ages: the delicate relationship between the spiritual and secular worlds, the two 'cities' of the title. This survey provides all the facts and background information that students need, and is defined into straightforward thematic chapters. It makes extensive use of primary sources, and makes new trends in research accessible to students. Its fresh approach gives students the most rounded, lively and integrated view of the high Middle Ages available.
Tales of Two Cities
Title | Tales of Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Conlin |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-10-21 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 161902263X |
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from each other Paris and London invented the true metropolis. Tales of Two Cities examines and compares five urban spaces—the pleasure garden, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant and the music hall—that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these essential features of the modern cityscape and so defined urban living for all of us.