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Zusatztext "Jenkins manages to explain very clearly why people in the early Christian era were so passionately concerned with issues of high theology." Informationen zum Autor Philip Jenkins, the author of The Lost History of Christianity , Jesus Wars , and The Next Christendom , is a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He has published articles and op-ed pieces in The Wall Street Journal , The New Republic , The Atlantic Monthly , and The Washington Post and has been a guest on top national radio shows across the country. Klappentext The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful charactersshaped Christian doctrine. Were it not for these battles, today’s church could beteaching something very different about the nature of Jesus, and the papacy as weknow it would never have come into existence. Jesus Wars reveals the profoundimplications of what amounts to an accident of history: that one faction ofRoman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another. Zusammenfassung The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church! PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful charactersshaped Christian doctrine. Were it not for these battles! today’s church could beteaching something very different about the nature of Jesus! and the papacy as weknow it would never have come into existence. Jesus Wars reveals the profoundimplications of what amounts to an accident of history: that one faction ofRoman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another.
