A new history of early Christianity /
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Call Number: BR162.3 .F73 2009
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| 100 | 1 | |a Freeman, Charles, |d 1947- |e author | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A new history of early Christianity / |c Charles Freeman. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New Haven : |b Yale University Press, |c c2009. | |
| 300 | |a xvi, 377 pages, [16] pages of plates : |b illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part one: Beginnings. A trial ; The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD ; Jesus before the Gospels ; Breaking away : the first Christianities ; What did Paul achieve? ; The letter to the Hebrews ; Fifty years on : the Gospel writers reflect on Jesus ; 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 ; Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews ; Was there a gnostic challenge? ; The idea of a church ; To compromise or reject : confronting the material world -- Interlude one: the earliest Christian art -- 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 : Christian martyrs -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three : The imperial church. The motives of Constantine ; Debating the nature of God ; The stifling of Christian diversity ; The assault on paganism ; 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop -- Interlude two: the art of imperial Christianity -- An obsession with the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Church history |y Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. | |
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