The Christian church as an institution
Thomas F. X. Noble|Julia M. H. Smith
We live in a post-ecclesiastical world. Popular and scholarly surveys repeatedly confirm that fewer people possess strong feelings of identity with specific ecclesial bodies. As the majority studies this volume demonstrates, medievalists have recent decades exchanged an almost exclusive focus on institutions high theology for new foci ordinary lived experience. Nevertheless, Middle Ages, Christianity was inseparable from institutional frameworks through which spread functioned.
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