Christianity in the Second Century - 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 Christianity in the Second Century write by James Carleton Paget. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Christianity in the Second Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity in the Second Century seeks to show how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone change over the last thirty years. It focuses on contributions from early Christian and ancient Jewish studies, and ancient history, all of which have contributed to a changing scholarly landscape.
Christianity in the Second Century
Christianity in the Second Century - 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 Christianity in the Second Century write by Emily Jane Hunt. This book was released on 2003. Christianity in the Second Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tatian is a significant figure in the early Church, his work both representing and revealing his second-century context. This study offers a detailed exploration of his thought. It is also a valuable introduction to the entire period, particularly the key developments it witnessed in Christianity. Emily Hunt examines a wide range of topics in depth: Tatian's relationship with Justin Martyr and his Oration to the Greeks; the Apologetic attempt to defend and define Christianity against the Graeco-Roman world and Christian use of hellenistic philosophy. Tatian was accused of heresy after his death, and this work sees him at the heart of the orthodox/heterodox debate. His links with the East, and his Gospel harmony the Diatessaron, lead to an exploration of Syriac Christianity and asceticism. In the process, scholarly assumptions about heresiology and the Apologists' relationship with hellenistic philosophy are questioned, and the development of a Christian philosophical tradition is traced from Philo, through Justin Martyr, to Tatian - and then within several key Syriac writers. This is the first dedicated study of Tatian for more than forty years.
The Second-Century Apologists
The Second-Century Apologists - 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 Second-Century Apologists write by Alvyn Pettersen. This book was released on 2020-08-31. The Second-Century Apologists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "They bring three charges against us: atheism, Thyestean banquets, and Oedipean unions." So a late second-century Christian Apologist wrote with reference to his critics. Against these and other charges the Apologists rallied. Not so, they maintained. It was not the Christians but their critics who were the atheists and the Christians were the true theists. They were atheists only insofar as they denied the fabricated gods of the cults and the immoral deities of theaters. That, they explained, was why Christians absented themselves, whatever the cost, from the imperial cult, theaters, and amphitheaters. They were not cannibals, as Thyestes was when he ate the flesh of his children. To suggest otherwise was to misunderstand Christians consuming Christ's flesh and blood at the Eucharist. Nor were they imitators of Oedipus, who entered into sexual relations with Jocasta, his Queen and, though he knew it not, also his mother. Christians did exchange the kiss of peace. They did love one another. They were not, however, incestuous. Any promiscuous love on their part extended only to a very practical love of every needy soul. This book explores these arguments, especially noting the Apologists' commitment to God's oneness, to Christians not worshipping anything made, and to humans properly caring for fellow creatures.
Christianity at the Crossroads
Christianity at the Crossroads - 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 Christianity at the Crossroads write by Michael J. Kruger. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Christianity at the Crossroads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain. Michael Kruger's introductory survey examines how Christianity took root in the second century, how it battled to stay true to the vision of the apostles, and how it developed in ways that would shape both the church and Western culture over the next two thousand years.
Paul and the Second Century
Paul and the Second Century - 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 Paul and the Second Century write by Michael F. Bird. This book was released on 2011-05-05. Paul and the Second Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume looks at the imprint and influence that the writings of the Apostle Paul had in the second century, examining the Pauline corpus in conjunction with key second century figures and texts such as Ignatius, Polycarp, and the Epistle of Diognetus. It investigates the impact of Paul's legacy and examines how this legacy shaped the Christianity that emerged in the second century as represented by the Apostolic Fathers, the early Christian Apologists, and among Gnostic and Judeo Christian groups.
