Author : James Carleton Paget
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 37,7 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 : Emily Jane Hunt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,23 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 : Michael J. Kok
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451490224
Despite virtually unanimous patristic association of the Gospel of Mark with the apostle Peter, the Gospel was mostly neglected by those same writers. Michael J. Kok surveys the second-century reception of Mark, from Papias of Hierapolis to Clement of Alexandria, and finds that the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace Mark because they perceived it to be too easily adapted to rival Christian factions. Kok describes the story of Marks Petrine origins as a second-century move to assert ownership of the Gospel on the part of the emerging Orthodox Church.
Author : D. Jeffrey Bingham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004318763
This volume offers an appreciation of the value of intertextuality—from Greek, Roman, Jewish, and biblical traditions—as related to the post-apostolic level of Christian development within the second century. Not least of these foundational pillars is the certain impact of the Second Sophistic movement during this period with its insipient influence on much of early Christian theology’s formation. The variety of these strands of inspiration created a tapestry of many diverse elements that came to shape the second-century Christian situation. Here one sees biblical texts at work, Jewish and Greek foundations at play, and interaction among patristic authors as they seek to reconcile their competing perspectives on what it meant to be “Christian” within the contemporary context.
Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 36,31 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 : Jeremiah Mutie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498201652
Death in Second-Century Christian Thought explores how the meaning of death was conceptualized in this crucial period of the history of the church. Through an exploration of some key metaphors and other figures of speech that the early church used to talk about this interesting but difficult topic, the author argues that the early church selected, modified, and utilized existing views on the subject of death in order to offer a distinctively Christian view of death based on what they believed the word of God taught on the subject, particularly in light of the ongoing story of Jesus following his death-his burial and resurrection. In short, the book shows how Christians interacted with the views of death in late antiquity, coming up with their own distinctive view of death.
Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1784986062
Applied expository guide to Hebrews—a book that shows us how and why Jesus is better than anything else. We are all tempted to drift away from Jesus, but in the book of Hebrews God gives us an anchor: a detailed understanding of how and why Jesus is better than anything else. Seminary professor Michael J. Kruger unpacks this rich book verse by verse. He explains the Old Testament background, gives plenty of application for our lives today, and shows us how Jesus is the fulfilment of all God's work on earth. He encourages us to live by faith in Jesus—the only anchor for our souls. This expository guide can be read as a book; used as a devotional; and utilized in teaching and preaching.
Author : Walter H. Wagner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,93 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 : Matthias Holweg
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262275613
How the auto industry can replace obsolete strategies dating to Henry Ford's era with a system that reconnects customers to the value chain: a build-to-order model centered on process, product, and volume flexibility.
Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830864970
Were the books of New Testament canon written as Scripture or did they become Scripture by a decision of the second-century church? Michael J. Kruger challenges the commonly held "extrinsic" view on the emergence of the New Testament canon in favor of a canon that arose naturally from within the early Christian faith.
