Birth of Christianity
Title | Birth of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Carmichael |
Publisher | Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1994-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780880297387 |
The Birth of Christianity
Title | The Birth of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Barnett |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005-03-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780802827814 |
Barnett's work is not so much a narrative of the "birth" and early years of Christianity as an argument that this birth can be documented by the usual methods of historical inquiry.
The Rise of Christianity
Title | The Rise of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Stark |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 1997-05-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0060677015 |
This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly), this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence, and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews—and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago).
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.
The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix of Judaism
Title | The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix of Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Ziffer |
Publisher | Author House |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2006-06-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467816221 |
The book presents the essential information necessary for understanding how Christianity developed from being a Jewish sect to becoming an independent religion. While religious differences played an important role in the separation of Jews and Christians in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, there were also political, social and economic factors at work that contributed to the parting of the ways of these two groups. An effort was made to keep technical jargon to a minimum in this work. Thus we have here a book that is easily understood and yet scientifically sound. Footnotes should help steer the interested reader toward more specialized treatments of this or that sub-theme. In the end it is hoped that the book will be a stepping stone toward a more respectful and creative partnership between Christians and Jews in the neverending task of tikkun olam, the healing of our ailing world.
The Story of Christianity
Title | The Story of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob Balling |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802839442 |
In order to highlight the long lines of continuity and development in the historical process of the religion, Balling (ancient and medieval church history, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) slides over many events that would illuminate the nuances and diversity of that process, and limits his study to European
Christianity in Ancient Rome
Title | Christianity in Ancient Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Green |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567032507 |
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