“A wonderful introduction to our neglected Christian tradition.”
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Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too*often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church.*They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained*cultural influence in the time of Constantine and that the faith was only later recovered by the*sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and*wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants.
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Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see beyond modern caricatures of the medieval*church to the animating Christian spirit of that age. He believes today's church could learn a*number of lessons from medieval faith, such as how the gospel speaks to ordinary, embodied*human life in this world. Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians explores key ideas, figures, and*movements from the Middle Ages in conversation with C. S. Lewis and other thinkers, helping*contemporary Christians discover authentic faith and renewal in a forgotten age.
