Bøger af Peter Iver Kaufman

To show how authority came to be shared among the institutions of Church, book and bishop, this work offers vignettes drawn from the first seven centuries of Christian clerical life that reflect the struggle to devise management strategies to resolve theological, political and social conflict.

Augustine in the fourth and fifth centuries and Thomas More in the sixteenth were familiar with the deceits and illusions. This book explains how and why we have failed to appreciate Augustine's and More's profound political pessimism, reintroducing readers to two of the Christian tradition's most enigmatic yet influential figures.

To show how authority came to be shared among the institutions of Church, book and bishop, this work offers vignettes drawn from the first seven centuries of Christian clerical life that reflect the struggle to devise management strategies to resolve theological, political and social conflict.

Collects shards of the expectations and regrets that survive in petitions, manuscript records of university controversy, and recollections of proponents of lay and local control. The fragments recover thinking about the laity that gave ""revolutionary force"" to late Tudor puritanism.