The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature write by Frances Young. This book was released on 2004-04. The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
A History of Early Christian Literature
A History of Early Christian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Early Christian Literature write by Justo L. González. This book was released on 2019-08-27. A History of Early Christian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological controversiesthe defining theological events of the early churchhave long provided the framework with which to understand the development of early Christian belief. In this groundbreaking work, esteemed historian of Christianity Justo González chooses to focus on the literature of early Christianity. Beginning with the epistolary writings of the earliest Christian writers of the second century CE, he moves through apologies, martyrologies, antiheretical polemics, biblical commentaries, sermons, all the way up through Augustines invention of spiritual autobiography and beyond. Throughout he demonstrates how literary genre played a decisive role in the construction of theological meaning. Covering the earliest noncanonical Christian writings through the fifth century and later, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to students studying the theology of the early church.
Books and Readers in the Early Church
Books and Readers in the Early Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Books and Readers in the Early Church write by Harry Y. Gamble. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Books and Readers in the Early Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dictionary of Early Christian Literature
Dictionary of Early Christian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictionary of Early Christian Literature write by Siegmar Doepp. This book was released on 2000. Dictionary of Early Christian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-awaited successor to Berthold Altaner's Patrologie handbook, the Dictionary of Early Christian Literature presents the life and work of Chrisitan authors up to the eighth century and an assessment of their lasting influence on the Christian tradition. The Dictionary offers complete and precise information as well as an updated bibliography in an easy-to-use alphabetical arrangement. Articles on authors provide a brief description of their lives, a presentation of their works, and an assessment of their invluence on the Christian tradition. Other articles deal with types of works and their particular characteristics. Despite the wealth of articles, movements and developments within the centuries can be easily grasped, providing valuable insight into the formation of the Christian tradition as we understand it today.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies write by Susan Ashbrook Harvey. This book was released on 2008-09-04. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
