Reviews for Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages The Relations Between Religion, Church, and ...

The average rating for Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages The Relations Between Religion, Church, and ... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-24 00:00:00 Curt Lindenberger To my mind, few people understand medieval Christianity as well as Adriaan Bredero. This book, although far from being comprehensive on such a broad subject, is nonetheless more than enough for any student of the Middle Ages. As the subtitle suggests, the book looks at the complex relationships between religion, church and society, giving contextual examples in considerable detail.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-11 00:00:00 Gary Garsha This was a very interesting read. As a lifetime atheist I have read a lot of Christian texts which attempt to come to terms with the theory of religion in contrast to its reality with its inherent intolerance and brutality. I was given C. S. Lewis' "The Problem of Pain" by a Christian friend a few years ago and was appalled by its hypocrisy, lack of logic and poor scholarship. This on the other hand was well researched and well argued. I found it s sections on the mythology of redemptive violence fascinating and the loss of connection between religion and education intriguing. This is an abridged version of a four volume study but there is enough here to make it well worth reading. I particularly liked the analysis of the nature of fundamentalism. This was better than so much Christian literature that I have read because of its academic approach. A far cry from the mindset that one of the authors commented on which was summed up by a bumper sticker that he saw that said, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it".