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...
| Subtitles: | Early Christianity |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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| Published: |
New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]
Yale Univ. Press
2009
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 377 S., Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 030012581X |