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A new history of early Christianity /
The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. Charles Freeman's meticulous his...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: Beginnings. A trial ; The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD ; Jesus before the Gospels ; Breaking away : the first Christianities ; What did Paul achieve? ; The letter to the Hebrews ; Fifty years on : the Gospel writers reflect on Jesus ; John and the Jerusalem Christians ; Creating a New Testament ; No second coming : the search for stability
- Part two: Becoming Christian. Toeholds in a wider empire ; Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews ; Was there a gnostic challenge? ; The idea of a church ; To compromise or reject : confronting the material world
- Interlude one: the earliest Christian art
- Celsus confronts the Christians
- The challenge of Greek philosophy
- Origen and early Christian scholarship
- New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity
- Victims or volunteers : Christian martyrs
- The spread of Christian communities
- Part three: The imperial church. The motives of Constantine ; Debating the nature of God ; The stifling of Christian diversity ; The assault on paganism ; 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop
- Interlude two: the art of imperial Christianity
- An obsession with the flesh
- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin
- Divine but human
- The closing of the schools
- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire
- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.