Jesus Before Constantine

Author : Doug E. Taylor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725255234

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Jesus Before Constantine by Doug E. Taylor Pdf

That’s now, but what about then? There is much diversity in Christianity today in terms of what constitutes necessary core beliefs, but what can we know about the earliest Christianity? Until the major councils began in the fourth century, were all who claimed to be Christian considered part of the church, or was there more to it than just claiming a name? Is there evidence for how the church understood core and necessary beliefs prior to Constantine’s arrival in history and the Council of Nicea in AD 325? This book examines such questions. Using only those materials that are accepted by most scholars on the subject, whether they are Christian or not, and focusing on the period from AD 30–250, a picture emerges showing what Christians held as a core belief as well as how flexible they were on this belief. Only after identifying where the church stood in this period can we begin to understand whether others such as Ebionites, Docetists, and Marcionites would have been accepted as Christian. A case is made based on writings from the church, the Nag Hammadi, and a completely secular tool from the twentieth century to find the conclusion to this question.

Author : Ivor J Davidson,Tim Dowley
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857213846

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Birth of the Church by Ivor J Davidson,Tim Dowley Pdf

The Monarch History of the Church is an eight-volume series by world-renowned historians and theologians. Each volume offers an even-handed, comprehensive and readable assessment of the main strands of Christianity within its period. The first volume covers the period AD 30-312. During this time, the church experienced major challenges politically, culturally and intellectually, yet grew and defined itself in remarkable ways. Here is the story of Christianity's earliest shapers - men and women whose influence is still felt today.

Author : Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Church history
ISBN : UOM:39076002924368

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The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) Pdf

Sometimes called the "Christian Herodotus" and often referred to as the "Father of ecclesiastical history," Eusebius (A.D. 263-339) has earned legitimate fame as the historian of Christian antiquity. An intimate friend of the Emperor Constantine, the Greek Bishop Eusebius wrote the only surviving account of the church during its crucial first 300 years. - Jacket flap.

Author : David L. Dungan
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451406126

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Constantine's Bible by David L. Dungan Pdf

Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. David Dungan re-examines the primary source for the history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches new conclusions: that we usually use the term "canon" incorrectly; that the legal imposition of a "canon" or "rule" upon scripture was a fourth- and fifth-century phenomenon enforced with the power of the Roman imperial government; that the forces shaping the New Testament canon are much earlier than the second-century crisis occasioned by Marcion, and that they are political forces. Dungan discusses how the scripture selection process worked, book-by-book, as he examines the criteria used-and not used-to make these decisions. He describes the consequences of the emperor Constantine's tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic Christianity into imperial Christianity. --From publisher's description.

Author : Margaret M. Mitchell,Frances M. Young,K. Scott Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521812399

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Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 1, Origins to Constantine by Margaret M. Mitchell,Frances M. Young,K. Scott Bowie Pdf

Author : Eusebius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141904306

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The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius Pdf

Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, his aim was to show the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity and its struggle against persecutors and heretics.

Author : Alistair Kee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498295727

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Constantine versus Christ by Alistair Kee Pdf

The subject of this book is politics and religion, the relationship between Constantine and Christianity. Something happened in the reign of the Emperor Constantine that transformed both politics and religion in Europe, and anyone who seeks to understand modern Christianity must analyze this transformation and its consequences. The reign of Constantine is remembered as the victory of Christianity over the Roman Empire; the subtitle of the book indicates a more ominous assessment: "the triumph of ideology." Through a careful analysis of the sources, Dr. Kee argues that Constantine was not in fact a Christian and that the sign in which he conquered was not the cross of Christ but a political symbol of his own making. However, that is only the beginning of the story. For Constantine, religion was part of an imperial strategy, and the second part of this book shows just what that strategy was. Here is the development which marks a transition to a further stage, the way in which by using Christianity for his own ends, Constantine trans­formed it into something completely different. Constantine, Dr. Kee argues, along with his biographer and panegyrist Eusebius, succeeded in replacing the norms of Christ and the early church with the norms of imperial ideology. Why it has been previously thought that Constantine was a Christian is not because what he believed was Christian, but because what he believed came to be called Christian. And that represents "the triumph of ideology."

Author : Terry Julian
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9781412070034

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Constantine the Great, Christianity, and Constantinople by Terry Julian Pdf

Since Jesus Christ, only two people have affected the life or death of christianity: Saint Paul with his missionary success and Constantine The Great with his divine revelation. Constantine was the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from persecuting Christians to promoting them and this resulted in major and lasting consequences for Christianity. He created an environment for Christianity to evolve from a fringe society to become the single most important influence on Western civilization. In addition to being the greatest builder of Christian churches, Constantine created Constantinople, today's Istanbul a centre that kept Christianity and classical literature alive for a thousand years.

Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786073020

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The Triumph of Christianity by Bart D. Ehrman Pdf

How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God’s messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. It could so easily have been a forgotten sect of Judaism. Through meticulous research, Bart Ehrman, an expert on Christian history, texts and traditions, explores the way we think about one of the most important cultural transformations the world has ever seen, one that has shaped the art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics and economics of modern Western civilisation.

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRM1J

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From the birth of Christ to the reign of Constantine, A.D. 1-311 by Philip Schaff Pdf

Author : Charles Tylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Church history
ISBN : CHI:090124967

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Early Church History to the Death of Constantine by Charles Tylor Pdf

Author : Steven Bigham,Stéphane Bigham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 097456186X

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Early Christian Attitudes Toward Images by Steven Bigham,Stéphane Bigham Pdf

For all iconophiles, that is, those who accept the dogma of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, but especially the Orthodox who claim that the icon has a sacramental and mystical character, it is naturally disquieting to hear the claim that the early Christians were aniconic and iconophobic. If this claim is true, the theology and the veneration of the icon are seriously undermined. It is, therefore, natural for iconophiles to attempt to disprove the thesis according to which the early Christians had no images whatsoever (aniconic) because they believed them to be idols (iconophobic). It is equally natural for iconophiles to want to substantiate, as much as this is possible, their deep intuition that the roots of Christian iconography go back to the apostolic age. This study weakens the notion and credibility of the alleged hostility of the early Christians to non-idolatrous images, providing a more balanced evaluation of this question.

Author : Erin Vearncombe,Brandon Scott,Hal Taussig,Westar Institute, The
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780063062177

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After Jesus Before Christianity by Erin Vearncombe,Brandon Scott,Hal Taussig,Westar Institute, The Pdf

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination. Christianity has endured for more than two millennia and is practiced by billions worldwide today. Yet that longevity has created difficulties for scholars tracing the religion’s roots, distorting much of the historical investigation into the first two centuries of the Jesus movement. But what if Christianity died in the fourth or fifth centuries after it began? How would that change how historians see and understand its first two hundred years? Considering these questions, three Bible scholars from the Westar Institute summarize the work of the Christianity Seminar and its efforts to offer a new way of thinking about Christianity and its roots. Synthesizing the institute’s most recent scholarship—bringing together the many archaeological and textual discoveries over the last twenty years—they have found: There were multiple Jesus movements, not a singular one, before the fourth century There was nothing called Christianity until the third century There was much more flexibility and diversity within Jesus’s movement before it became centralized in Rome, not only regarding the Bible and religious doctrine, but also understandings of gender, sexuality and morality. Exciting and revolutionary, After Jesus Before Christianity provides fresh insights into the real history behind how the Jesus movement became Christianity. After Jesus Before Christianity includes more than a dozen black-and-white images throughout.

Author : Edward Backhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Church history
ISBN : OXFORD:590044817

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Early Church History to the Death of Constantine by Edward Backhouse Pdf

Author : Albert Nolan
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001601857

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Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan Pdf

The second edition of this classic has been revised and its language made more gender-inclusive.