The Church In Ancient Society

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191529955

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The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianity changed this and so provided a foundation for the modern world: the teaching of Jesus created a lasting community, which grew to command the allegiance of the Roman emperor. Christianity is discussed in relation to how it appeared to both Jews and pagans, and how its Christian doctrine and practice were shaped in relation to Graeco-Roman culture and the Jewish matrix. Among the major figures discussed are Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Basil, Ambrose, and Augustine. Following a chronological approach, Henry Chadwick's clear exposition of important texts and theological debates in their historical context is unrivalled in detail. In particular, theological and ecclesial texts are examined in relation to the behaviour and beliefs of people who attended churches and synagogues. Christians did not find agreement and unity easy and the author displays a distinctive concern for the factors - theological, personal, and political - which caused division in the church and prevented reconciliation. The emperors, however, began to foster unity for political reasons and to choose monotheism. Finally, the Church captured the society.

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1131986140

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Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199246953

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The Church in Ancient Society by Henry Chadwick Pdf

The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianitychanged this and so provided a foundation for the modern world: the teaching of Jesus created a lasting community, which grew to command the allegiance of the Roman emperor. Christianity is discussed in relation to how it appeared to both Jews and pagans, and how its Christian doctrine and practicewere shaped in relation to Graeco-Roman culture and the Jewish matrix. Among the major figures discussed are Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Basil, Ambrose, and Augustine.Following a chronological approach, Henry Chadwick's clear exposition of important texts and theological debates in their historical context is unrivalled in detail. In particular, theological and ecclesial texts are examined in relation to the behaviour and beliefs of people who attended churchesand synagogues. Christians did not find agreement and unity easy and the author displays a distinctive concern for the factors - theological, personal, and political - which caused division in the church and prevented reconciliation. The emperors, however, began to foster unity for political reasonsand to choose monotheism. Finally, the Church captured the society.

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725230934

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The Role of the Christian Bishop in Ancient Society by Henry Chadwick Pdf

Author : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780571279326

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Battling the Gods by Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.

Author : H. A. Drake
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801871042

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Constantine and the Bishops by H. A. Drake Pdf

Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Church history
ISBN : 014013753X

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The Early Church by Henry Chadwick Pdf

Chadwickʹs Early Church covers, as the book cover suggests, "the story of emergent Christianity from the apostolic age to the dividing of the ways between the Greek East and the Latin West." The story unfolds with the Jewish and Roman background within which the beginning church was nourished. It then goes on to show how important it is for the church to establish order and unity amidst threats of persecution and heresy. The emergence of apologists helps not only the expansion of the church but also the construction of Christian doctrine. At the same time, controversies abound as the church encountered many different cultural and sociological challenges while trying out in reaction a variety of ideas. With chapter seven, the relation between church and state changes, resulting in a stronger influence of the state upon the church while accelerating the split between the Latin West and the Greek East. The Arian controversy shows a period of instability between state and church, and also deepens the split of East and West. But within the turmoil, ascetic practice, papacy, liturgy, and art are established, helping to transmit a common European culture while the Roman Empire begins to degenerate.

Author : Catherine Nixey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544800939

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The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

Author : Michael Hollerich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520295360

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Making Christian History by Michael Hollerich Pdf

Known as the “Father of Church History,” Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity’s early development, from its origin in Judaism, through two and a half centuries of illegality and occasional persecution, to a new era of tolerance and favor under the Emperor Constantine. In this book, Michael J. Hollerich recovers the reception of this text across time. As he shows, Eusebius adapted classical historical writing for a new “nation,” the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision. Eusebius’s text left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period—across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundaries—until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebius’s vast influence throughout history, not simply in shaping Christian culture but also when falling under scrutiny as that culture has been reevaluated, reformed, and resisted over the past 1,700 years.

Author : Joseph Cullen Ayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Church history
ISBN : UOM:39015003364786

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A Source Book for Ancient Church History from the Apostolic Age to the Close of the Conciliar Period by Joseph Cullen Ayer Pdf

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Church history; Christian literature, Early; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Christian Church / History;

Author : Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4U4A

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A Manual of Church History by Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke Pdf

Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633869

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Christianity and Roman Society by Gillian Clark Pdf

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Author : John D. Hannah
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 031023316X

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Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History by John D. Hannah Pdf

The first in a series of three books that survey the history of the church from its beginning to the present day.

Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300069189

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Books and Readers in the Early Church by Harry Y. Gamble Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Cullen Ayer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511693002

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A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer Pdf

A Source Book for Ancient Church History is a thorough history of the Church from its start to the Middle Ages.