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Author : Ernest Renan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Apostles
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064186301
Author : Margaret M. Mitchell,Frances M. Young,K. Scott Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521812399
Author : Archibald Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UCAL:$B498240
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451688511
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Author : David Flusser
Publisher : Hebrew University Magnes Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014322849
For more than three decades, Professor David Flusser of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has pioneered new understandings of the Jewish background of early Christianity. Many have been fascinated by his unique monograph on Jesus, translated into several languages. Most of his scholarly articles in English, including some new contributions as well as many published in not easily accessible journals, have been collected in this one volume. A must for New Testament scholars, and students of early Judaism, it will also be welcomed by the many lay persons for whom Professor Flusser has provided illumination on the origins of Christian faith.
Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802847498
"At the Origins of Christian Worship" can deepen readers' understanding of early Christian worship by setting it within the context of the Roman world in which it developed. Hurtado highlights the two central characteristics of earliest Christian worship: its exclusive rejection of the ancient-world gods and its inclusion of Christ with God as the focus of devotion.
Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141021898
From a prize-winning author, this book charts the course of Christianity from ancient history onwards.
Author : Richard Horsley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781451416640
Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources. Of particular interest to the distinguished group of scholar-contributors are the often overlooked aspects of the earliest "Christian" consciousness: How, for example, did they manage to negotiate allegiances to two social groups? How did they deal with crucial issues of wealth and poverty? What about the participation of slaves and women in these communities? How did living in the shadow of the Roman Empire color their religious experience and economic values?
Author : Rebecca I. Denova
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119759621
"Denova explores how the first followers of Jesus arrived at their faith, the way their sacred texts developed into the New Testament, and how their movement eventually became the religion of Christianity. [Her] volume examines the concepts, beliefs, issues, and events that gave rise to institutional Christianity--providing readers with the historical context of the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Book of Revelation, the letters of Paul, and other foundational New Testament documents"--Back cover.
Author : Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300065132
By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years--from the crucifixion of Jesus to the end of the second century of the common era--when Christian beliefs and practices shaped their unique moral order. Wayne A. Meeks examines the surviving documents from Christianity's beginnings (some of which became the New Testament) and shows that they are largely concerned with the way converts to the movement should behave. Meeks finds that for these Christians, the formation of morals means the formation of community; the documents are addressed not to individuals but to groups, and they have among their primary aims the maintenance and growth of these groups. Meeks paints a picture of the process of socialization that produced the early forms of Christian morality, discussing many factors that made the Christians feel that they were a single and "chosen" people. He describes, for example, the impact of conversion; the rapid spread of Christian household cult-associations in the cities of the Roman Empire; the language of Christian moral discourse as revealed in letters, testaments, and "moral stories"; the rituals, meetings, and institutionalization of charity; the Christians' feelings about celibacy, sex, and gender roles; and their sense of the end-time and final judgment. In each of these areas Meeks seeks to determine what is distinctive about the Christian viewpoint and what is similar to the moral components of Greco-Roman or Jewish thought.
Author : Delbert Burkett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521007208
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Author : Etienne Nodet,Justin Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021932715
Etienne Nodet and Justin Taylor investigate the character of the early Christian community by looking at the origins of baptism and the Eucharist and the links between them. A fundamental work on the initiation sacraments, "The Origins of Christianity" focuses on the Essenes at the time that this tradition-bound culture came in contact with the Gentiles. The result was a profound change that transformed a sect into a church.
Author : Owen Chadwick
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0312187238
Presents a history of the Christian faith, from its beginning as a Jewish sect to the impact of twentieth-century issues such as birth control, Muslim fundamentalism, and Nazi racism.
Author : George W. E. Nickelsburg
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 145140848X
In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Christian scholars portrayed Judaism as the dark religious backdrop to the liberating events of Jesus' life and the rise of the early church. Since the 1950s, however, a dramatic shift has occurred in the study of Judaism, driven by new manuscript and archaeological discoveries and new methods and tools for analyzing sources. George Nickelsburg here provides a broad and synthesizing picture of the results of the past fifty years of scholarship on early Judaism and Christianity. He organizes his discussion around a number of traditional topics: scripture and tradition, Torah and the righteous life, God's activity on humanity's behalf, agents of God's activity, eschatology, historical circumstances, and social settings. Each of the chapters discusses the findings of contemporary research on early Judaism, and then sketches the implications of this research for a possible reinter-pretation of Christianity. Still, in the author's view, there remains a major Jewish-Christian agenda yet to be developed and implemented.
Author : Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374714031
A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries readers through his “doors” into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith’s founding. Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrère re-creates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrère puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke’s encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity, and retracing his investigation of its founder, an obscure religious freak who died under notorious circumstances. Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrère sets out on a headlong chase through the latter part of the Bible, drawing out protagonists who believed they were caught up in the most important events of their time. An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion, and the ongoing quest to find a place within it.