World Religion Book Report

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World Religion Book Report
Religions evolve. Over the years new ideas and events shape the nature of various religions. In order to understand this situation we need to look at the history of particular religions. In A History of Christian Theology William Carl Placher looks at the development of Christian theology.
Histories can look at many different aspects of a society, religion or time period.
Placher
is more interested in looking at the history of ideas. For example,
Placher
suggests that he is looking at the history of Christian theology as an aspect of intellectual history(
Placher
11).
Placher’s
central argument is that Christian theology does not occur in a vacuum. It is embedded in a network of social, economic and political...

..... about the history of Christianity. The academic could use this source as a reference for future research.
Works Cited
Johns, Jeremy, “Christianity and Islam” Chapter 5 in John
McManners
(ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of
Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990: 163-
195.
Markus, Robert, “From Rome to the Barbarian Kingdom” Chapter 2
in John
McManners
(ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of
Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990: 62-
91.
Mayr-Harting
, Henry, “The West” Chapter 3 in John
McManners
(ed),
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990: 92-122.
McManners
, John(ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of
Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990.