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The End of Ancient Christianity
Author | : R. A. Markus,Robert Austin Markus |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521339499 |
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Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.
Christianity in Ancient Rome
Author | : Bernard Green |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567032508 |
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A New History of Early Christianity
Author | : Charles Freeman |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300125818 |
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"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
Backgrounds of Early Christianity
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802822215 |
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New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Violence in Ancient Christianity
Author | : Albert Geljon,Riemer Roukema |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004274907 |
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Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to competing religious groups. Yet at the same time they testify to their virulent verbal criticism of Jews, heretics and pagans, who could not accept the Christian exclusiveness. After emperor Constantine had turned to Christianity, Christians acquired the opportunity to use violence toward competing groups and pagans, even though they were instructed to love them personally and Jewish-Christian relationships flourished at grass root level. General analyses and case studies demonstrate that the fashionable distinction between intolerant monotheism and tolerant polytheism must be qualified.
The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity
Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674545137 |
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Perhaps more than any other cause, the passage of texts from scroll to codex in late antiquity converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity and enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. Guy Stroumsa describes how canonical scripture was established and how its interpretation replaced blood sacrifice in religious ritual.
Ancient Christian Worship
Author | : Andrew B. McGowan |
Publsiher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781441246318 |
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An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.
Late Ancient Christianity
Author | : Virginia Burrus |
Publsiher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9781451419467 |
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The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline. Popular fiction, childrearing and toys, rituals of inclusion, the beginning of veneration of saints and shunning of heretics, the ascetic impulse, food practices—all these and more lend color and texture to the story of a "people's" Christianity in this formative stage.