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Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England

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Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England

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Theology and Society in an Age of Faith

Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England

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Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England book

Theology and Society in an Age of Faith
ByHelen Foxhall Forbes
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 27 April 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586427
Pages 410
eBook ISBN 9781315586427
Subjects Humanities
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Forbes, H.F. (2013). Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586427

ABSTRACT

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|62 pages

I Believe in One God

chapter 2|66 pages

Creator of All Things, Visible and Invisible

chapter 3|72 pages

And He Will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead

chapter 4|64 pages

The Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins

chapter 5|64 pages

The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting

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