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In Search of the Early Christians

Author : Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130104
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Early Christians written by Wayne A. Meeks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period. Meeks explores a fascinating range of topics, from the figure of the androgyne in antiquity to the timeless matter of God’s reliability, from Paul’s ethical rhetoric to New Testament pictures of Christianity’s separation from Jewish communities. Meeks’ introduction offers a retrospective on New Testament studies of the past thirty years and explains the intersection of these studies with a variety of exploratory and revisionist movements in the humanities, embracing social theory, history, anthropology, and literature. In an epilogue the author reflects on future directions for New Testament scholarship.

The Early Christians in Their Own Words

Author : Eberhard Arnold
Publisher : The Plough Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 0874860954
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Early Christians in Their Own Words written by Eberhard Arnold and published by The Plough Publishing House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these firsthand accounts of the early church, the spirit of Pentecost burns with prophetic force through the fog enveloping the modern church. A clear and vibrant faith lives on in these writings, providing a guide for Christians today. Its stark simplicity and revolutionary fervor will stun those lulled by conventional Christianity.The Early Christians is a topically arranged collection of primary sources. It includes extra-biblical sayings of Jesus and excerpts from Origen, Tertullian, Polycarp, Clement of Alexandria, Justin, Irenaeus, Hermas, Ignatius, and others. Equally revealing material from pagan contemporaries - critics, detractors, and persecutors - is included as well.

The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius

Author : Paul Trebilco
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802807690
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius by : Paul Trebilco

Download or read book The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius written by Paul Trebilco and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capital city of the province of Asia in the first century CE, Ephesus played a key role in the development of early Christianity. In this book Paul Trebilco examines the early Christians from Paul to Ignatius, seen in the context of our knowledge of the city as a whole. Drawing on Paul's letters and the Acts of the Apostles, Trebilco looks at the foundations of the church, both before and during the Pauline mission. He shows that in the period from around 80 to 100 CE there were a number of different communities in Ephesus that regarded themselves as Christians -- the Pauline and Johannine groups, Nicolaitans, and others -- testifying to the diversity of that time and place. Including further discussions on the Ephesus addresses of the apostle John and Ignatius, this scholarly study of the early Ephesian Christians and their community is without peer.

A New History of Early Christianity

Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030012581X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Early Christianity written by Charles Freeman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.

Books and Readers in the Early Church

Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300069181
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Books and Readers in the Early Church written by Harry Y. Gamble and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.

We Look for a Kingdom

Author : Carl Sommer
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149616X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book We Look for a Kingdom written by Carl Sommer and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Sommer presents a popular study of the faith and life of the early Christians in the first two centuries after Christ. Using documentary evidence and archaeological records, Sommers reconstructs the lives of the early Christians in order to "introduce the treasures of early Christianity to a large number of modern readers". By studying how the early Christians believed and lived, we can learn many valuable lessons on what to avoid and what to strive for today. The Roman world had many facets that are strikingly similar to elements of modern life. Sommer's aim is to help the reader learn how to transform modern culture with the power of the Gospel as was first done in the centuries of the early Church.

The Mass of the Early Christians, 2nd Edition

Author : Mike Aquilina
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1592767699
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Mass of the Early Christians, 2nd Edition written by Mike Aquilina and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the first Christians believe about the Eucharist? How did they follow Jesus' command, "Do this in remembrance of me"? How did they celebrate the Lord's Day? What would they recognize in today's Mass? The answers may surprise you. In The Mass of the Early Christians, respected author, scholar, and television host Mike Aquilina reveals the Church's most ancient Eucharistic beliefs and practices. Using the words of the early Christians themselves -- from many documents and inscriptions -- Aquilina traces the history of the Mass from Jesus' lifetime through the fourth century. That the Mass stood at the center of the Church's life is evident in the Scriptures, as well as the earliest Christian sermons, letters, artwork, tombstones, and architecture. Even the pagans bore witness to the Mass in the records of their persecutions. These legacies from the early Church bear witness to the same worship Catholics know today: the altar, the priest, the chalice of wine, the bread, the Sign of the Cross ... the "Lord, have mercy" ... the "Holy, holy, holy" ... and the Communion.

Evangelism in the Early Church

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467465623
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Evangelism in the Early Church written by Michael Green and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a modern classic, Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church shows how the first Christians worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world. Studying the New Testament and church fathers, Green explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news. He also considers the obstacles to evangelism, using outreach to Gentiles and to Jews as examples of differing contexts for proclamation. Thoroughly informed by primary sources, this book will help contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision.

Pagan Rome and the Early Christians

Author : Stephen Benko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203854
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Rome and the Early Christians written by Stephen Benko and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret marks, met at night and made love to one another indiscriminately, worshipped the head of an ass and the genitals of their high priests, and ate children were widely believed. In examining these charges and the Christian response to them, Benko has provided a persuasively argued and refreshing, if controversial, perspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds."[book cover].

The Myth of Persecution

Author : Candida Moss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062104543
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Persecution written by Candida Moss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.

In Search of Ancient Roots

Author : Kenneth J Stewart
Publisher : IVP Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781514008379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Ancient Roots written by Kenneth J Stewart and published by IVP Academic. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceiving a disconnect between their Protestant tradition and ancient Christianity, younger generations are abandoning evangelicalism for traditions that appear more rooted in the early church. Surveying five centuries church history, Ken Stewart argues for the rich Protestant connections to the Reformation and early Christianity.

The Very First Christians

Author : Paul L. Maier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780570071754
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Very First Christians written by Paul L. Maier and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12-year-old Christopher entreats his grandfather to tell him about Peter, Paul, and the very first Christians.

Early Christians in Disarray

Author : Noel B. Reynolds
Publisher : Maxwell Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Christians in Disarray written by Noel B. Reynolds and published by Maxwell Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at the apostasy of the early Christian church. Most Latter-day Saint scholars and leaders previously based their understanding of the Christian apostasy on the findings of Protestant scholars who provided a seemingly endless array of evidences of apostasy in Christian history. Since the classic treatments of this topic were written, many newly discovered manuscripts written during the first Christian centuries have come to light, giving a clearer picture of what the early Christian experience was like. Drawing on this material, LDS scholars today are able to shift the focus of study to the causes of the apostasy rather than the effects. This volume of essays reports new research by several LDS scholars in different fields. They identify common myths and misconceptions about the apostasy and promote better understanding of when and why the apostasy occurred.

Early Christian Lives

Author : Athanasius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907290
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Early Christian Lives written by Athanasius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the Egyptian desert, despite temptation by the devil and visits from his followers. Jerome also shows those who fled persecution or withdrew from society to pursue lives of chastity and asceticism in his accounts of Paul of Thebes, Hilarion and Malchus. In his Life of Martin, Sulpicius Severus describes the achievements of a man who combined the roles of monk, bishop and missionary, while Gregory the Great tells of Benedict, whose Rule became the template for monastic life. Full of vivid incidents and astonishing miracles, these Lives have provided inspiration as models for centuries of Christian worship.

Prayer Book of the Early Christians

Author : John A McGuckin
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781640600065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Prayer Book of the Early Christians by : John A McGuckin

Download or read book Prayer Book of the Early Christians written by John A McGuckin and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayers and rituals from the ancient Church (especially early Greek Christianity), re-presenting them ofor the use of 21st-century Christians at home, in small prayer groups, cohorts, and house churches.

Backgrounds of Early Christianity

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802822215
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Book Synopsis Backgrounds of Early Christianity by : Everett Ferguson

Download or read book Backgrounds of Early Christianity written by Everett Ferguson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.

Mary As the Early Christians Knew Her

Author : Frederica Mathewes-Green
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781612613437
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Mary As the Early Christians Knew Her written by Frederica Mathewes-Green and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2013 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable volume features three ancient texts--a brief prayer to Mary found on a scrap of papyrus in Egypt about a hundred years ago, The Gospel of Mary and The Annunciation Hymn of Rejoicing--that open up the life of Mary, and her role in the church, in new and sometimes startling ways. $10,000 ad/promo.