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Author | : Charles Freeman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 030012581X |
Download A New History of Early Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"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.
Author | : Joe E. Barnhart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351769235 |
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Originally pulished in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations. Moving on from an examination of the foundations of historical and literary criticism in the Renaissance, and a detailed study of two writers in antiquity,Thucydides and Chariton, to examine writings in the period between Plato and the Gospel of Mark, the authors then explore the writing of Paul and the stories told in the Gospels. With the early Christians drawing from both Greek and Hebrew sources, Barnhart and Kraeger propose that, like Plato, Paul and other Christians generated an "anti-tragic theatre" gospel with the Jesus figure being the creation of a culture steeped in an anthropomorphic, metaphysical view of the world.
Author | : Gary B. Ferngren |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2016-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421420066 |
Download Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans. Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. "A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.
Author | : W. H. C. Frend |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1997-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780225668506 |
Download The Archaeology of Early Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Whilst the problems of the stylistic origins of church architecture are not ignored, the emphasis of this book is on archaeological research as a means of tracing the mission of the Church and the history of ideas of non-orthodox traditions. It follows the history of the discovery of articles which have changed Christian thought, from Empress Helena's discovery of the "True Cross" to finds made in recent years.
Author | : Michael Green |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2023-09-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467465623 |
Download Evangelism in the Early Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Now a modern classic, Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church shows how the first Christians worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world. Studying the New Testament and church fathers, Green explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news. He also considers the obstacles to evangelism, using outreach to Gentiles and to Jews as examples of differing contexts for proclamation. Thoroughly informed by primary sources, this book will help contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision.
Author | : Wayne A. Meeks |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300130104 |
Download In Search of the Early Christians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period. Meeks explores a fascinating range of topics, from the figure of the androgyne in antiquity to the timeless matter of God’s reliability, from Paul’s ethical rhetoric to New Testament pictures of Christianity’s separation from Jewish communities. Meeks’ introduction offers a retrospective on New Testament studies of the past thirty years and explains the intersection of these studies with a variety of exploratory and revisionist movements in the humanities, embracing social theory, history, anthropology, and literature. In an epilogue the author reflects on future directions for New Testament scholarship.
Author | : William E. Klingshirn |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813214866 |
Download The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802822215 |
Download Backgrounds of Early Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Bernard Green |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567032507 |
Download Christianity in Ancient Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : William Tabbernee |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2014-11-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441245715 |
Download Early Christianity in Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This major work draws on current archaeological and textual research to trace the spread of Christianity in the first millennium. William Tabbernee, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of Christianity, has assembled a team of expert historians to survey the diverse forms of early Christianity as it spread across centuries, cultures, and continents. Organized according to geographical areas of the late antique world, this book examines what various regions looked like before and after the introduction of Christianity. How and when was Christianity (or a new form or expression of it) introduced into the region? How were Christian life and thought shaped by the particularities of the local setting? And how did Christianity in turn influence or reshape the local culture? The book's careful attention to local realities adds depth and concreteness to students' understanding of early Christianity, while its broad sweep introduces them to first-millennium precursors of today's variegated, globalized religion. Numerous photographs, sidebars, and maps are included.