A New History of Early Christianity
Title | A New History of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Freeman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 030012581X |
"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity)
Title | The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Klingshirn |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Total Pages | 357 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813214866 |
Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
Books and Readers in the Early Church
Title | Books and Readers in the Early Church PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Y. Gamble |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300069181 |
This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.
Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity
Title | Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Barnett |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 2002-04-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780830826995 |
Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within the world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducee and revolutionaries, but argues that the mainspring and driving force of early Christian history is the historical Jesus.
Backgrounds of Early Christianity
Title | Backgrounds of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Everett Ferguson |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 676 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802822215 |
New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
A New History of Christianity
Title | A New History of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Joachim Hillerbrand |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0687027969 |
Dig into the story of Christianity from its origins to today.
Medieval Christianity
Title | Medieval Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Madigan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300158726 |
A new narrative history of medieval Christianity, spanning from A.D. 500 to 1500, focuses on the role of women in Christianity; the relationships among Christians, Jews and Muslims; the experience of ordinary parishioners; the adventure of asceticism, devotion and worship; and instruction through drama, architecture and art.