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Author : Adolf von Harnack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries written by Adolf von Harnack and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076615
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Mary Through the Centuries written by Jaroslav Pelikan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Mary has been represented in theology, art, music, and literature throughout the ages
Author : James D.G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802839320
Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Beginning from Jerusalem written by James D.G. Dunn and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christianity in the making, James D.G. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels, New Testament apocrypha, and such church fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus, showing how the Jesus tradition and the figures of James, Paul, Peter, and John were still esteemed influences but were also the subject of intense controversy as the early church wrestled with its evolving identity.
Author : William Vernon Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004147179
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries written by William Vernon Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by contemporary historians considers how after two centuries of scholarship we can best explain Christianity's rise to dominance.
Author : James D. G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802839312
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Jesus Remembered written by James D. G. Dunn and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christianity in the making, James D.G. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels, New Testament apocrypha, and such church fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus, showing how the Jesus tradition and the figures of James, Paul, Peter, and John were still esteemed influences but were also the subject of intense controversy as the early church wrestled with its evolving identity.
Author : Stephen S. Liggins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110460378
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Many Convincing Proofs written by Stephen S. Liggins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been various studies examining the contents of the evangelistic proclamation in Acts; and various studies examining, from one angle or another, individual persuasive phenomena described in Acts (e.g., the use of the Jewish Scriptures); no individual studies have sought to identify the key persuasive phenomena presented by Luke in this book, or to analyse their impact upon the book’s early audiences. This study identifies four key phenomena – the Jewish Scriptures, witnessed supernatural events, the Christian community and Greco-Roman cultural interaction. By employing a textual analysis of Acts that takes into account both narrative and socio-historical contexts, the impact of these phenomena upon the early audiences of Acts – that is, those people who heard or read the narrative in the first decades after its completion – is determined. The investigation offers some unique and nuanced insights into evangelistic proclamation in Acts; persuasion in Acts, persuasion in the ancient world; each of the persuasive phenomena discussed; evangelistic mission in the early Christian church; and the growth of the early Christian church.
Author : Williston Walker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Christian Church written by Williston Walker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn Muller Lopez
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881462047
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Christianity written by Kathryn Muller Lopez and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological, Guide for Students is a mutual effort by Kathy Lopez, Don Penny, Glenn Jonas, and Adam English, the faculty of the Religion department at Campbell University. --
Author : District of Columbia. Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Public Library of the District of Columbia written by District of Columbia. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ferdinand Christian Baur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Church History of the First Three Centuries written by Ferdinand Christian Baur and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1624 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paperbound Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolf Von Harnack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375676380
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (763 download)
Download or read book The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries; written by Adolf Von Harnack and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mackinnon Robertson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Christianity written by John Mackinnon Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 910 pages
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Download or read book New Testament Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Ellis Messenger
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries written by Ruth Ellis Messenger and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no part of the general field of Christian hymnology so baffling to the student or so full of difficulties as the one under consideration in this paper. Many accounts of the subject are in existence but are far from conclusive. This is due, first of all, to the unexpected scarcity of original sources. When one views the rise of Christianity from its inception to the period of the Council of Nicaea, 325, its numerical growth from a handful of original adherents to millions of followers at the time of the Edict of Milan, 313, its literary development from early scattered records to the works of the great Greek and Latin fathers, one cannot help inquiring, “What has become of their hymns?” Aeterna Press
Author : John G. Stackhouse Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199721327
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Making the Best of It written by John G. Stackhouse Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should be the Christian's attitude toward society? When so much of our contemporary culture is at odds with Christian beliefs and mores, it may seem that serious Christians now have only two choices: transform society completely according to Christian values or retreat into the cloister of sectarian fellowship. In Making the Best of It, John Stackhouse explores the history of the Christian encounter with society, the biblical record, and various theological models of cultural engagement to offer a more balanced and fruitful alternative to these extremes. He argues that, rather than trying to root up the weeds in the cultural field, or trying to shun them, Christians should practice persistence in gardening God's world and building toward the New Jerusalem. Examining the lives and works of C. S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer for example and direction, Stackhouse suggests that our mission is to make the most of life in the world in cooperation with God's own mission of redeeming the world he loves. This model takes seriously the pattern of God's activity in the Bible, and in subsequent history, of working through earthly means--through individuals, communities, and institutions that are deeply flawed but nonetheless capable of accomplishing God's purposes. Christians must find a way to live in this world and at the same time do work that honors God and God's plan for us. In an era of increasing religious and cultural tensions, both internationally and domestically, the model that Stackhouse develops discourages the "all or nothing" attitudes that afflict so much of contemporary Christianity. Instead, he offers a fresh, and refreshingly nuanced, take on the question of what it means to be a Christian in the world today.
Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481304757
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Destroyer of the Gods written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a "bookish" religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple ritual observances characteristic of the pagan religious environment, embracing Christian faith meant a behavioral transformation, with particular and novel ethical demands for men. Unquestionably, to the Roman world, Christianity was both new and different, and, to a good many, it threatened social and religious conventions of the day. In the rejection of the gods and in the centrality of texts, early Christianity obviously reflected commitments inherited from its Jewish origins. But these particular features were no longer identified with Jewish ethnicity and early Christianity quickly became aggressively trans-ethnic--a novel kind of religious movement. Its ethical teaching, too, bore some resemblance to the philosophers of the day, yet in contrast with these great teachers and their small circles of dedicated students, early Christianity laid its hard demands upon all adherents from the moment of conversion, producing a novel social project. Christianity's novelty was no badge of honor. Called atheists and suspected of political subversion, Christians earned Roman disdain and suspicion in equal amounts. Yet, as Destroyer of the gods demonstrates, in an irony of history the very features of early Christianity that rendered it distinctive and objectionable in Roman eyes have now become so commonplace in Western culture as to go unnoticed. Christianity helped destroy one world and create another.
