Broken Lights and Mended Lives : Theology and Common Life in the Early Church /

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Autor principal: Greer, Rowan A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [1986]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Theology > Early church.
Spirituality > Christianity > Early church.
Fathers of the church.
Christian life > Early church.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
Theologie > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Peres de l'Église.
Vie chretienne > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Theology > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Spirituality > Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian life > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Theology: The Church's Articulation of Its Experience of God
  • The Church's Experience
  • The Functions of Theology as the Articulation of the Church's Experience
  • Theology and the Shaping of Christian Experience
  • Conclusion
  • Part I: Broken Lights
  • 1. The Victory that Sums up God's Purposes
  • Irenaeus and His Saviour
  • The Saviour and Adam
  • From Infancy to Maturity
  • The Old Testament as God's Dispensation
  • The Incarnation and "Summing Up"
  • The Vision of God as the Life of Humanity
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The Leaven and the Lamb
  • The Image of God-A Vision of Human Destiny
  • The "Way" to the Vision
  • Nyssa's Christology in Dialogue with Apollinaris
  • The Christian Life and Destiny
  • 3. The Pilgrim and the Holy City
  • Augustine's Conversion to Christian Platonism
  • Christian Platonism Transformed: Towards the Predestinarian Schema
  • The Christian Story and the Predestinarian Schema
  • The Christian Life as a Response to Garce
  • Part II: Mended Lives
  • 4. The Family
  • Marriage and the Family in the New Testament
  • Christianity and Roman Society before Constantine
  • The Imperial Church in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
  • The Christian Ideal
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Hospitality
  • Hospitality in the New Testament
  • Hospitality in the Age of the Martyrs
  • Hospitality in the Christian Empire
  • Hospitality as a Spiritual Ideal
  • 6. Alien Citizens: A Marvelous Paradox
  • I
  • II
  • 7. The City Set on a Hill
  • The Origins and Character of Early Monasticism
  • Basil the Great and Monasticism
  • John Cassian
  • 8. The Collapse of the West
  • A Synopsis of the Collapse of the West
  • Paulinus of Pella
  • Sidonius Apollinaris
  • Cassiodorus
  • Christian Attitudes Toward the Fall of the West
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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