Christian beginnings: from Nazareth to Nicaea (AD 30 - 325)
The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of ea...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
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2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ History 30-325
B Church / History 30-325 |
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Christianity
B Jesus Christ B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 B Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 |
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| Summary: | The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet fully recognisable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament - to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion |
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| ISBN: | 1846141508 |