CHRIST THE FIRST 2000 YEARS by Martyn Whittock, Esther Whittock ( 9780745970462 )

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Title:

CHRIST THE FIRST 2000 YEARS
FROM HOLY MAN TO GLOBAL BRAND: HOW OUR VIEW OF CHRIST HAS CHANGED ACROSS TIME AND CULTURES

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ISBN 10:

074597046X

ISBN 13:

9780745970462

Publisher:

LION HUDSON PLC

Pub. date:

18 March, 2016

Pages:

320

Description:

How has this towering figure of history been seen over the past two centuries?

Synopsis:

How has Christ been seen for the last two millennia? From the Christ of the Gospels to the Isa of Islam, this book explores the way Jesus Christ has been viewed, described, promoted, opposed and written about. What did the word 'Christ' mean in the first century, and how did it resonate with the politics and religion of the time? And beyond that, how was Jesus seen in the New Testament, and then onto the time of the Desert Fathers? What of the heretical Christs - and who decided, and why? And from the 2nd century onwards, people started to draw and to paint images of Christ - how did this change and develop? The book then traces the history of Christ through the militant leader of the Crusaders, via the multi-faceted Christ of the Middle Ages, and the opposing views of Him thrown up by the Reformation and the wars that followed. Finally, the authors consider the Christ of the technological age and the age of total war, before looking also at the Christ of Liberation Theology, Marxism, the Developing world, the Dalits, other faiths, and the Post-modern Christ of the 21st century.

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8pp b/w plate section

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Lion Books

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Non-returnable

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