A new history of early Christianity

Introduction -- Part one: Beginnings -- A trial -- The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD -- Jesus before the Gospels -- Breaking away : the first Christianities -- From history to myth, from Jesus to Christ : what did Paul achieve? -- The letter to the Hebrews -- Fifty years on the Jesus o...

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Subtitles:Early Christianity
Main Author: Freeman, Charles 1947- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:[Rezension von: Freeman, Charles, A New History of Early Christianity] (2015) (Friesen, Paul)
The early Church. History and memory. By Josef Lössl. Pp. viii+247. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2010. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 46464 4; 978 0 567 16561 9 - A new history of early Christianity. By Charles Freeman. Pp. xx+377 incl. 4 maps+26 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £25. 978 0 300 12581 8 (2010) (Paget, James Carleton, 1966 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Church / History
B Christianity / History 30-600
Further subjects: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:Introduction -- Part one: Beginnings -- A trial -- The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD -- Jesus before the Gospels -- Breaking away : the first Christianities -- From history to myth, from Jesus to Christ : what did Paul achieve? -- The letter to the Hebrews -- Fifty years on the Jesus of the Gospels -- 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 : infiltrating Greek culture -- Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews -- Was there a gnostic challenge? -- The idea of a church -- To compromise or reject -- 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 : the problem of Christian martyrdom -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three: The imperial church -- The motives of Constantine -- Debating the nature of God -- Theodosius and the stifling of Christian diversity -- The assault on paganism -- 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop -- An obsession with desire : Jerome and the temptations of the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools, Justinian and the silencing of debate -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:030012581X