Christian History Home > Issue 49 > Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages: From the Editor - Faith that Filled the Nooks and Crannies
Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages: From the Editor - Faith that Filled the Nooks and Crannies
Mark Galli, Editor | posted 1/01/1996 12:00AM
We Christians of the closing years of the twentieth century have a lot to complain about.
We complain that modern Christianity is so fractured that we’ve made a scandal of Jesus’ prayer that all his followers be one. Yet there was a time in history when Christianity was one.
We long for political leaders who identify themselves as Christians and try to live by their convictions. Yet there was a time when this was so.
We complain that our society has gone secular, and we yearn and pray that Christian values (rather than hedonism, lust, and consumerism) be represented in television, movies, and popular magazines. Yet there was a time when popular culture was Christian.
It was called the high Middle Ages, from roughly A.D. 1000 to 1500.
It wasn’t heaven on earth, by any means. Protestants, for example, are troubled by many doctrines and practices of the medieval church. But it is instructive even for Protestants to look at the era, for it was the only era in history when Christianity held sway ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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