The Formation of Christian Europe
The Carolingians, Baptism, and the Imperium Christianum
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 October 2014
- ISBN 9780198718031
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 236x163x25 mm
- Weight 654 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is a study of the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Dr Phelan argues that baptism offered a medium for the communication and popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe.
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The Formation of Christian Europe analyses 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 analyses 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, publically 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.
This work is laboriously documented and replete with historical detail that supports Phelan's thesis...The breadth and depth of his textual examination, including theological, liturgical, and political texts, make The Formation of Christian Europe an impressive work of historical scholarship. Yet Phelan's study of the sacramentum and the development of baptismal formation also makes his work useful to theologians. As such, his work holds a strong appeal across academic disciplines.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Sacramentum: An Ordering Concept from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
The Articulation of Polity: Baptism as the Foundation of an Imperium Christianum
The Carolingian Subject: The Sacramentum of Baptism and the Formation of Identity in Alcuin of York
The Carolingian Machinery of Christian Formation: Charlemagne's Encyclical Letter n Baptism from 811/812 and its implications
The Sacramental Assumption: Baptism and Carolingian Society in the Ninth Century
Conclusion: Loss and Legacy
Bibliography
Index
