Writing the History of Early Christianity - 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 Writing the History of Early Christianity write by Markus Vinzent. This book was released on 2019-03-14. Writing the History of Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards. This book will interest teachers and students of New Testament studies from around the world of any denomination, and readers of early Christianity and Patristics.
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.
The Early Church
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 The Early Church write by Henry Chadwick. This book was released on 1967. The Early Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chadwickʹs Early Church covers, as the book cover suggests, "the story of emergent Christianity from the apostolic age to the dividing of the ways between the Greek East and the Latin West." The story unfolds with the Jewish and Roman background within which the beginning church was nourished. It then goes on to show how important it is for the church to establish order and unity amidst threats of persecution and heresy. The emergence of apologists helps not only the expansion of the church but also the construction of Christian doctrine. At the same time, controversies abound as the church encountered many different cultural and sociological challenges while trying out in reaction a variety of ideas. With chapter seven, the relation between church and state changes, resulting in a stronger influence of the state upon the church while accelerating the split between the Latin West and the Greek East. The Arian controversy shows a period of instability between state and church, and also deepens the split of East and West. But within the turmoil, ascetic practice, papacy, liturgy, and art are established, helping to transmit a common European culture while the Roman Empire begins to degenerate.
The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity)
The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) - 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 Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) write by William E. Klingshirn. This book was released on 2007. The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
A New History of Early Christianity
A New History of Early Christianity - 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 New History of Early Christianity write by Charles Freeman. This book was released on 2009-01-01. A New History of Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
