Exploring Christian Heritage - 3rd Edition by C Douglas Weaver & Rady Roldán-Figueroa (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Exploring Christian Heritage provides students and teachers with a rich and substantial introduction to the texts that have shaped the Christian faith. Including works by Augustine, Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Wesley, John Calvin, and Karl Barth, among others, this collection also highlights essential movements--from the second to the twenty-first centuries--often glossed over in primary source readers. From Pentecostalism and Baptists to feminism and religious liberty movements, Exploring Christian Heritage succinctly joins together the most influential voices of Christian history and theology with those that have been forgotten and sometimes ignored.

Now in its third edition, voices ancient and modern, such as Timothy I of Baghdad, Margery Kempe, and Fannie Lou Hamer, have been added to deepen and widen the story of Christianity in varied forms.

Review Quotes

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS: The editors have clearly poured their years of seasoned experience in the college and university classroom into this collection. Each source is accompanied by a brief introduction to its author and the excerpt. . . . This book is a particularly valuable resource for college instructors teaching Christian history or theology, but is also recommended for any student curious about the development of Christian ideas and faith.

About the Author

C. Douglas Weaver is Chair of the Department of Religion and Barbara Jo Beard Driskell Professor of Historical Studies at Baylor University.

Rady Roldán-Figueroa is Professor of the History of Christianity in the School of Theology at Boston University.