Author : Bernard Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567032507
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Author : Ferdinand Christian Baur
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532632347
Christianity and the Christian Church of the First Three Centuries is the first volume in Baur’s five-volume history of the Christian Church. It and the last volume, Church and Theology in the Nineteenth Century, are being published in new translations. This book, based on the second German edition of 1860, is the most influential and best known of Baur’s many groundbreaking publications in New Testament, early Christianity, church history, and historical theology. It is divided into six main parts and discusses such matters as the entrance of Christianity into world history, the teaching and person of Jesus, the tension between Jewish Christian and gentile Christian (Pauline) interpretations and their resolution in the idea of the Catholic Church, the opposition of Gnosticism and Montanism to Catholicism, the development of dogma or doctrine in the first three centuries, Christianity’s relation to the pagan world and the Roman state, and Christianity as a moral and religious principle.
Author : Adolf von Harnack
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Author : Udo Schnelle
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493422421
Beginning as a marginal group in Galilee, the movement initiated by Jesus of Nazareth became a world religion within 100 years. Why, among various religious movements, did Christianity succeed? This major work by internationally renowned scholar Udo Schnelle traces the historical, cultural, and theological influences and developments of the early years of the Christian movement. It shows how Christianity provided an intellectual framework, a literature, and socialization among converts that led to its enduring influence. Senior New Testament scholar James Thompson offers a clear, fluent English translation of the successful German edition.
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861077
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Church history
ISBN :
The consequences of becoming a Christian in the early Christian movement is set apart from that move from any other religious affiliation. You could become a Mithraist or Isiac or whatever, and it made no difference to your previous religious activities and loyalties. You continued to take part in the worship of your inherited deities of household, city, nation. But if you became a Christian you were expected to desist from worship of all other deities. And the ubiquitous place of the gods in all spheres of social and political activity made that difficult, and made for potentially serious consequences if you did desist. Indeed, it made it difficult to know how you could function socially and politically (to use our terminology). This book explores the growth of adherents to early Christianity; that all across this early period people became adherents of Christianity in the face of the costs and consequences of doing so.
Author : Ferdinand Christian Baur
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Author : Ferdinand Christian Baur
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Author : Valeriy A. Alikin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004183094
Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a critical interpretation of all available sources, this book discusses the social and religio-historical background of the weekly gatherings of Christians and presents a fresh reconstruction of how the weekly gatherings originated and developed in both form and content. The topics studied here include the origins of the observance of Sunday as the weekly Christian feast-day, the shape and meaning of the weekly gatherings of the Christian communities, and the rise of customs such as preaching, praying, singing, and the reading of texts in these meetings.
Author : Oskar Skarsaune
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830828443
Oskar Skarsaune gives us a new look into the development of the early church and its practice by showing us the evidence of interaction between the early Christians and rabbinic Judaism. He offers numerous fascinating episodes and glimpses into this untold story.
