A new history of early Christianity /

A new history of early Christianity /

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Main Author: Freeman, Charles, 1947- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

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Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

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Call Number: BR162.3 .F73 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.