christianity
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Church growth, negative evangelism and beta churches
@ 2013-04-22 – 22:02:08
[ ... ] some people away from Christianity altogether. Suppose only 40 of the original liberals in the congregation move to other churches and 20 leave the ... more -
Late antique Christianity and equal marriage
@ 2013-02-18 – 08:00:47
[ ... ] few five centuries of Christianity, rather than directly from the Bible itself, and yet ignoring elements of this "traditional" view that do not ... more -
Religious men 3: Gregorian reform and performance indicators
@ 2012-10-26 – 21:14:06
I've blogged a couple of times already on this summer conference at the University of Huddersfield on Religious Men in the Middle Ages: Day 1, Day 2). … more -
Religious men 2: who are the religious men?
@ 2012-10-17 – 21:33:36
I blogged the first day of the Huddersfield conference on Religious Men in the Middle Ages back in August (a mere month after attending it), and I'm … more -
Religious men 1: rabbis, bishops and saints
@ 2012-08-05 – 09:26:11
[ ... ] potential of Christianity on the dominant social order (even if this potential was rarely realised). In fact, if you include Michael ... more -
Framing the clerical cosmos 2: the connected church
@ 2012-05-21 – 17:52:21
In my first post about the Clerical Cosmos conference that I attended last month I discussed papers looking at clerics on the ground – the local priests … more -
Framing the Clerical Cosmos 1: the view on the ground
@ 2012-04-25 – 08:17:33
I didn't get to the first Clerical Cosmos conference in Oxford in 2010, though Jonathan Jarrett did and reported on it, but I made it to "The Clerical … more -
Beware of the northerners
@ 2012-03-25 – 20:16:50
[ ... ] outside the borders of Christianity) incorporated or not into apocalyptic thought? What was interesting was seeing how different the responses ... more -
The long and short of the bloodless sword
@ 2012-03-22 – 08:51:38
I'm trying to catch up on blogging some of the IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminars and next on the list is a paper I heard at the start of February: Sarah … more -
A rag and a bone and a hank of holy hair
@ 2011-02-03 – 23:04:07
The first IHR seminar of this term was given by Julia Smith on 'Rethinking relics in the medieval west: evidence and approaches c 700-c 1200'. Julia … more
