b| GOSA c| GOSA j| GOSA

a| 978-0-300-12581-8 c| hardback

a| (BeLVLBS)007456755LBS01-Aleph

a| LOC-2009012009

a| (OCoLC)ocn317361785

a| (EXLNZ-32KUL_LIBIS_NETWORK)9974567550101471

a| A new history of early Christianity.

a| New Haven b| Yale University Press, c| 2009.

a| XVI, 377 p., [16] p. ill.

a| text 2| rdacontent

a| unmediated 2| rdamedia

a| volume 2| rdacarrier

t| Part one: Beginnings. A trial ; The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD ; Jesus before the Gospels ; Breaking away : the first Christianities ; What did Paul achieve? ; The letter to the Hebrews ; Fifty years on : the Gospel writers reflect on Jesus ; John and the Jerusalem Christians ; Creating a New Testament ; No second coming : the search for stability -- Part two: Becoming Christian. Toeholds in a wider empire ; Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews ; Was there a gnostic challenge? ; The idea of a church ; To compromise or reject : confronting the material world -- Interlude one: the earliest Christian art -- Celsus confronts the Christians -- The challenge of Greek philosophy -- Origen and early Christian scholarship -- New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity -- Victims or volunteers : Christian martyrs -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three: The imperial church. 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 rise of the bishop -- Interlude two: the art of imperial Christianity -- An obsession with the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.

a| Church history y| Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

2| UDC a| 27 "00/05" x| Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05"

a| Freeman, Charles 4| aut

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