A New History of Early Christianity.
by
Freeman, Charles.
Title
:
A New History of Early Christianity.
Author
:
Freeman, Charles.
ISBN
:
9780300166583
Personal Author
:
Freeman, Charles.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents
:
Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface -- A Trial -- The Seedbed -- Jesus before the Gospels -- Breaking Away -- What Did Paul Achieve? -- The Letter to the Hebrews -- Fifty Years On -- John and the Jerusalem Christians -- Creating a New Testament -- No Second Coming -- Toeholds in a Wider Empire -- Open Borders -- Was There a Gnostic Challenge? -- The Idea of a Church -- To Compromise or Reject -- The Earliest Christian Art -- Celsus Confronts the Christians -- The Challenge of Greek Philosophy -- Origen and Early Christian Scholarship -- New Beginnings -- Victims or Volunteers -- The Spread of Christian Communities -- The Motives of Constantine -- Debating the Nature of God -- The Stifling of Christian Diversity -- The Assault on Paganism -- 'No one is honoured before him' -- The Art of Imperial Christianity -- An Obsession with the Flesh -- The End of Optimism -- Divine but Human -- The Closing of the Schools -- A Fragile Church -- Faith, Certainty and the Unknown God -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Timeline -- Index.
Local Note
:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
:
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Electronic Access
:
Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1331758-1001 | BR162.3 -- .F73 2009 EB | Ebrary E-Books |