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Educating people of faith : exploring the history of Jewish and Christian communities / edited by John Van Engen.

Contributor(s): Van Engen, John H
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004Description: xiv, 352 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0802849369 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines | Spiritual life -- Judaism -- History of doctrinesDDC classification: 268/.09 LOC classification: BV4490 | .E38 2004
Contents:
Introduction: formative religious practices in premodern European life / John Van Engen -- Religious formation in ancient Judaism / Robert Goldenberg -- Christian formation in the early church / Robert Louis Wilken -- Simplifying Augustine / John C. Cavadini -- Monastic formation and Christian practice: food in the desert / Blake Leyerle -- Faith formation in Byzantium / Stanley Samuel Harakas -- Community and education in premodern Judaism / Michael A. Signer -- Practice beyond the confines of the medieval parish / John Van Engen -- Orality, textuality, and revelation as modes of education and formation in Jewish mystical circles of the high Middle Ages / Elliot R. Wolfson -- The thirteenth-century English parish / Joseph Goering -- The cult of the Virgin Mary and technologies of Christian formation in the later Middle Ages / Anne L. Clark -- Luther and formation in faith / David C. Steinmetz -- Zwingli and Reformed practice / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Catechesis in Calvin's Geneva / Robert M. Kingdon -- Ritual and faith formation in early modern Catholic Europe / Philip M. Soergel -- Spiritual direction as Christian pedagogy / Lawrence S. Cunningham.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: formative religious practices in premodern European life / John Van Engen -- Religious formation in ancient Judaism / Robert Goldenberg -- Christian formation in the early church / Robert Louis Wilken -- Simplifying Augustine / John C. Cavadini -- Monastic formation and Christian practice: food in the desert / Blake Leyerle -- Faith formation in Byzantium / Stanley Samuel Harakas -- Community and education in premodern Judaism / Michael A. Signer -- Practice beyond the confines of the medieval parish / John Van Engen -- Orality, textuality, and revelation as modes of education and formation in Jewish mystical circles of the high Middle Ages / Elliot R. Wolfson -- The thirteenth-century English parish / Joseph Goering -- The cult of the Virgin Mary and technologies of Christian formation in the later Middle Ages / Anne L. Clark -- Luther and formation in faith / David C. Steinmetz -- Zwingli and Reformed practice / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Catechesis in Calvin's Geneva / Robert M. Kingdon -- Ritual and faith formation in early modern Catholic Europe / Philip M. Soergel -- Spiritual direction as Christian pedagogy / Lawrence S. Cunningham.

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