TY  - BOOK
AU  - Svigel,Michael J.
AU  - Adair,John
TI  - Urban Legends of Church History: 40 Common Misconceptions
SN  - 1433649845
AV  - BR150 
U1  - 270 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Nashville
PB  - B & H ACADEMIC
KW  - Church history
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Église
KW  - Histoire
KW  - church history
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Intro -- Introduction -- Part I: Urban Legends of the Early Church (50-500) -- 1. The Earliest Christians Worshipped on Saturday -- 2. The Church Apostatized Shortly after the Apostles -- 3. The Sands of the Colosseum Are Stained with the Martyrs' Blood -- 4. The Lord's Supper Was Originally a Love Feast or "Community Meal" -- 5. The Earliest Church Didn't Know the Difference between Orthodoxy and Heresy -- 6. An Emperor, Pope, or Church Council Canonized the Bible -- 7. Pagan Philosophy Contaminated Christian Theology -- 8. The Doctrine of the Trinity Developed Centuries after Jesus; 9. The Emperor Constantine Made Christianity the Official State Religion -- 10. Women Never Served as Church Officers in the Early Church -- Part II: Urban Legends of the Medieval Period (500-1500) -- 11. Nothing Good Came from the "Dark Ages" -- 12. The Substitutionary Atonement First Appeared in the Middle Ages -- 13. The Roman Catholic Church Ruled Europe with Uniformity -- 14. The Christian Faith Was Lost during the Middle Ages -- 15. The One True Church Went Underground during the Dark Ages -- 16. The Medieval Catholic Church Completely Abandoned Salvation by Grace; 17. The One True Church Is Marked by an Unbroken Chain of Apostolic Succession -- 18. Abelard and Anselm Debated over the Atonement ... and Anselm Won -- 19. The Eastern and Western Churches Split over Just One Word in the Creed -- 20. The Roman Catholic Church Regularly Burned Heretics at the Stake -- Part III: Urban Legends of the Protestant Era (1500-1700) -- 21. The Protestant Reformers Concocted the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace through Faith -- 22. The Reformers Believed the Bible Was the Only Source for Theology; 23. The Reformers Were Trying to Restore the Church of the New Testament Era -- 24. The Reformers Removed the Apocrypha from the Bible -- 25. Protestants Don't Accept the Church Councils and Creeds -- 26. The Anabaptists Were the Predecessors of Modern Baptists -- 27. John Calvin Summarized His Theology in "Five Points" -- 28. Jacob Arminius Denied Depravity and Taught That Christians Could Lose Their Salvation -- 29. The King James Version Was the First Authorized Protestant Translation -- 30. The Pilgrims Fled Religious Oppression to Establish a Society of Religious Freedom; Part IV: Urban Legends of the Modern Age (1700-Present) -- 31. Modern Scholars Were the First to Notice "Problem Passages" in the Bible -- 32. The United States Was Originally a Christian Nation -- 33. Fundamentalists Were the First Christians to Believe in the Inerrancy of Scripture -- 34. None of the American Founding Fathers Were Orthodox Christians -- 35. Christians Took Genesis 1 Literally until Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- 36. Atheism First Threatened the Church in the Modern Era -- 37. The Church Has Never Been as Divided as It Is in the Modern Era
N2  - Urban Legends Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church history, from the period of the early church through the modern age
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