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The Formation of Christian Europe
Owen Michael Phelan
其他書名
The Carolingians, Baptism, and the Imperium Christianum
出版Oxford University Press, 2014
主題History / Europe / FranceHistory / Europe / MedievalReligion / GeneralReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Rituals & Practice / SacramentsReligion / Christian Theology / GeneralReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN01987180399780198718031
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PKm1BAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Formation of Christian Europe analyzes the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe. He analyzes how baptism unified people theologically, socially, and politically and helped Carolingian leaders order their approaches to public life. It enabled reformers to think in ways which were ideologically consistent, publicly available, and socially useful.
Phelan also examines the influential court intellectual, Alcuin of York, who worked to implement a sacramental society through baptism. The book finally looks at the dissolution of Carolingian political aspirations for an imperium christianum and how, by the end of the ninth century, political frustrations concealed the deeper achievement of the Carolingian Renewal.