Word Made Flesh

The Word Made Flesh

A History of Christian Thought

Includes CD-ROM

Margaret R. Miles
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
ISBN 9781405108461

Softcover, 435 pp.
9.2 X 7.3 X 1.0 inches | 1.8 pound

This outstanding textbook offers an original history of Christian thought, asking what it has meant over the centuries to participate in the religion of the Word made flesh.

• Traces Christian ideas, conversations, experiences and practices from the first century through to the dawn of modernity at the end of the eighteenth century.
  
• Presents an inclusive history, considering the critical roles of women and religious 'others'- dissenting Christians, Jews and Muslims - in shaping Christian thought.
  
• Sets Christian ideas in the context of conversations, controversies and concrete circumstances.
  
• Demonstrates the importance of liturgical and devotional exercises to the practice of Christianity.
  
• Treats words, images, music and architecture all as primary evidence of Christian traditions.
  
• Is accompanied by a CD Rom containing hundreds of visuals to support the theories and examples discussed throughout the volume.