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A new history of early Christianity
2009, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part one: Beginnings
A trial
The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD
Jesus before the Gospels
Breaking away : the first Christianities
From history to myth, from Jesus to Christ : what did Paul achieve?
The letter to the Hebrews
Fifty years on the Jesus of the Gospels
John and the Jerusalem Christians
Creating a New Testament
No second coming : the search for stability
Part two: Becoming Christian
Toeholds in a wider empire : infiltrating Greek culture
Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews
Was there a gnostic challenge?
The idea of a church
To compromise or reject
Celsus confronts the Christians
The challenge of Greek philosophy
Origen and early Christian scholarship
New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity
Victims or volunteers : the problem of Christian martyrdom
The spread of Christian communities
Part three: The imperial church
The motives of Constantine
Debating the nature of God
Theodosius and the stifling of Christian diversity
The assault on paganism
'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop
An obsession with desire : Jerome and the temptations of the flesh
The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin
Divine but human
The closing of the schools, Justinian and the silencing of debate
A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire
Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
270.1
Library of Congress
BR162.3 .F73 2009, BR162.3.F73 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23192463M
Internet Archive
newhistoryofearl00free
ISBN 13
9780300125818
LCCN
2009012009
OCLC/WorldCat
317361785
Library Thing
9007732
Goodreads
6771535

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