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Author : Cavan W. Concannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107194298
The story of a forgotten early Christian bishop and his emergent network of churches along ancient Mediterranean trade routes.
Author : Cavan W. Concannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Church history
ISBN : 1108302831
In this book, Cavan W. Concannon explores the growth and development of Christianity in the second century. He focuses on Dionysios of Corinth, an early Christian bishop who worked to build a network of churches along trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean. Using archaeological evidence, and analysing Dionysios' fragmentary letter collection, Concannon shows how various networks and collectives assembled together, and how various Christianities emerged and coexisted as a result of tenuous and shifting networks. Dionysios' story also overlaps with key early Christian debates, notably issues of celibacy, marriage, re-admission of sinners, Roman persecution, and the economic and political interdependence of churches, which are also explored in this study. Concannon's volume thus offers new insights into a fluid, emergent Christianity at a pivotal moment of its evolution.
Author : William Tabbernee
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441245717
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.
Author : Markus Vinzent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108480109
Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards. This book will interest teachers and students of New Testament studies from around the world of any denomination, and readers of early Christianity and Patristics.
Author : Robin Darling Young,Monica J. Blanchard
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813217321
To Train His Soul in Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture, extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy.
Author : Valeriy A. Alikin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004183094
Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a critical interpretation of all available sources, this book discusses the social and religio-historical background of the weekly gatherings of Christians and presents a fresh reconstruction of how the weekly gatherings originated and developed in both form and content. The topics studied here include the origins of the observance of Sunday as the weekly Christian feast-day, the shape and meaning of the weekly gatherings of the Christian communities, and the rise of customs such as preaching, praying, singing, and the reading of texts in these meetings.
Author : Helen Rhee
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415354889
This work concerns the early Christians' self-definitions and self-representations in the context of pagan-Christian conflict, reflected in the literatures from the mid-second to the early third centuries (ca. 150 - 225 CE).
Author : Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300130102
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 : Eberhard Arnold
Publisher : The Plough Publishing House
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780874860955
In these firsthand accounts of the early church, the spirit of Pentecost burns with prophetic force through the fog enveloping the modern church. A clear and vibrant faith lives on in these writings, providing a guide for Christians today. Its stark simplicity and revolutionary fervor will stun those lulled by conventional Christianity.The Early Christians is a topically arranged collection of primary sources. It includes extra-biblical sayings of Jesus and excerpts from Origen, Tertullian, Polycarp, Clement of Alexandria, Justin, Irenaeus, Hermas, Ignatius, and others. Equally revealing material from pagan contemporaries - critics, detractors, and persecutors - is included as well.
Author : Julien M. Ogereau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681200
In this volume Julien M. Ogereau investigates the origins and development of Christianity in the Roman province of Macedonia in the first six centuries CE. Drawing from the oldest literary sources, Ogereau reconstructs the earliest history of the first Christian communities in the region and explores the legacy of the apostle Paul in the cities of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Beroea. Turning to the epigraphic and archaeological evidence, Ogereau then examines Christianity’s dissemination throughout the province and its impact on Macedonian society in late antiquity, especially on its epigraphic habits and material culture.
Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134627172
Examining sources and case studies, this book explores early Christianity, how it was studied, how it is studied now, and how Judaeo-Christian values came to form the ideological bedrock of modern western culture. Looking at the diverse source materials available, from the earliest New Testament texts and the complex treaties of third century authors such as Lactantius, to archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology, the book examines what is needed to study the subject, what materials are available, how useful they are, and how the study of the subject may be approached. Case study chapters focus on important problems in the study of early Christianity including: the book of Acts as a text revelatory of the social dynamics of cities and as a text about the inherent tensions in Hellenistic Judaism orthodoxy and organization in early Christianity early Christianity and the Roman empire. Also including a comprehensive guide for students that lists major collections of literary and non-literary sources, major journals and series, and major text books, it is an excellent aid to the study of Christianity in history.
Author : William E. Klingshirn,Linda Safran
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813214863
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 : Christy Cobb,Eric Vanden Eykel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793637857
Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.
Author : Valeriy A. Alikin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190702
Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a critical interpretation of all available sources, this book discusses the social and religio-historical background of the weekly gatherings of Christians and presents a fresh reconstruction of how the weekly gathering originated and developed in both form and content. The topics studied here include the origins of the observance of Sunday as the weekly Christian feast-day, the shape and meaning of the weekly gatherings of the Christian communities, and the rise of customs such as preaching, praying, singing, and the reading of texts in these meetings.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780891128427
These studies in early church history cover various aspects of the church life of early Christians. They focus on the second century. What did the second century Christian leaders say about faith, baptism, infant baptism, worship services, the Lord's Supper, prayer, singing, church organization, mercy and the role of women? New Testament texts bearing on the topic are listed at the beginning of each chapter. We are talking about the same community of people, the same church, as existed in the New Testament. Such writings have an important bearing on the interpretation of the Scriptures.
