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The first thousand years : a global history of Christianity /

"A narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world:...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilken, Robert Louis, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Beginning in Jerusalem
  • Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa : the spread of Christianity
  • The making of a Christian community
  • Divisions within
  • Constructing a catacomb
  • A learned faith : Origen of Alexandria
  • Persecution : Cyprian of Carthage
  • A Christian emperor : Constantine
  • The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed
  • Monasticism
  • A Christian Jerusalem
  • Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians
  • Bishop and Emperor : Ambrose and Theodosius
  • Architecture and art
  • Music and worship
  • The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals
  • The bishop of Rome as pope
  • An ordered Christian society : canon law
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • The great controversy over Christ
  • Egypt and the Copts; Nubia
  • African Zion : Ethiopia
  • Syriac-speaking Christians : the Church of the East
  • Armenia and Georgia
  • Central Asia, China, and India
  • A Christian empire : Justinian
  • New beginnings in the West
  • Latin Christianity spreads north
  • The SACKING of Jerusalem : more controversy over Christ
  • No God but God : the rise of Islam
  • Images and the making of Byzantium
  • Arabic-speaking Christians
  • Christians under Islam : Egypt and North Africa
  • Christians under Islam : Spain
  • An emperor in the West : Charlemagne
  • Christianity among the Slavs.