Author : James Carleton Paget
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107165229
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.
Author : Walter H. Wagner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451419863
Through deft use of available data and texts, Wagner brings the enigmatic second century to life. Selecting five fateful challenges--issues of Creation, human nature, Jesus' identities, roles of the church, and Christians in society--he shows what was at stake for emerging Christianity and how its five key players responded. Map; glossary; bibliography.
Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830887512
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.
Author : Emily Jane Hunt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 9780415304054
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.
Author : Antti Marjanen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004170383
The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as "heretics": Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the "Pseudo-Clementines," and Elchasites.
Author : Bernard Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567032507
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Author : Matthew J. Thomas
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161562755
Paul writes that we are justified by faith apart from 'works of the law', a disputed term that represents a fault line between 'old' and 'new' perspectives on Paul. Was the Apostle reacting against the Jews' good works done to earn salvation, or the Mosaic Law's practices that identified the Jewish people? Matthew J. Thomas examines how Paul's second century readers understood these points in conflict, how they relate to 'old' and 'new' perspectives, and what their collective witness suggests about the Apostle's own meaning. Surprisingly, these early witnesses align closely with the 'new' perspective, though their reasoning often differs from both viewpoints. They suggest that Paul opposes these works neither due to moralism, nor primarily for experiential or social reasons, but because the promised new law and covenant, which are transformative and universal in scope, have come in Christ.
Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521766524
Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature is best understood when read alongside the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity.
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300098396
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Author : Helen Rhee
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415354882
This work concerns the early Christians' self-definitions and self-representations in the context of pagan-Christian conflict, reflected in the literatures from the mid-second to the early third centuries (ca. 150 - 225 CE).
