Germanization Of Early Medieval Christianity Summary
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation (Review)
Rachel M. Shaw
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity was written by Dr. James C. Russell. Russell is a conservative historian and theologian. He received his doctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University and has taught at Saint Peter’s College in New Jersey. Russell published Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity through the Oxford University Press in 1994.
This book is slow and methodical. It explores the course of Christian thought throughout medieval times as it develops into the common view of European Christianity from a conservative perspective. Particularly valuable for those interested in Identitarianism or views of the metapolitical right. This book’s target audience would not include those with a weak background in world history or world religion, particularly Christian religion.
Many studies have been done on medieval Christianity and they commonly acknowledge that originally Christianity in western Europe was superficial for …show more content…
Part one ‘Toward a Model of Religious Transformation” discusses the context of a religious transformation and what it means. He begins with a review of the culture of early Germanic societies. Despite being less civilized than their eastern counterparts they had an impressively sturdy culture. They had no immediate need for social structure or spirituality, fertilizers for the growth of Christianity. So logically missionaries had more difficulty spreading this “world-rejecting” belief to such a sociobiological and universal religious people than it did with the Roman Empire which had high social destabilization leaving a gap for Christianity to fill. These differences required the message be modified in its presentation. He underlines the effects of genetics, social destabilization, and syncrynization with existing pagan practice have on
A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation (Review)
Rachel M. Shaw
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity was written by Dr. James C. Russell. Russell is a conservative historian and theologian. He received his doctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University and has taught at Saint Peter’s College in New Jersey. Russell published Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity through the Oxford University Press in 1994.
This book is slow and methodical. It explores the course of Christian thought throughout medieval times as it develops into the common view of European Christianity from a conservative perspective. Particularly valuable for those interested in Identitarianism or views of the metapolitical right. This book’s target audience would not include those with a weak background in world history or world religion, particularly Christian religion.
Many studies have been done on medieval Christianity and they commonly acknowledge that originally Christianity in western Europe was superficial for …show more content…
Part one ‘Toward a Model of Religious Transformation” discusses the context of a religious transformation and what it means. He begins with a review of the culture of early Germanic societies. Despite being less civilized than their eastern counterparts they had an impressively sturdy culture. They had no immediate need for social structure or spirituality, fertilizers for the growth of Christianity. So logically missionaries had more difficulty spreading this “world-rejecting” belief to such a sociobiological and universal religious people than it did with the Roman Empire which had high social destabilization leaving a gap for Christianity to fill. These differences required the message be modified in its presentation. He underlines the effects of genetics, social destabilization, and syncrynization with existing pagan practice have on