Assembling Early Christianity

Assembling Early Christianity
Author: Cavan W. Concannon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107194296

The story of a forgotten early Christian bishop and his emergent network of churches along ancient Mediterranean trade routes.

Assembling Early Christianity

Assembling Early Christianity
Author: Cavan W. Concannon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108302939

In this book, Cavan W. Concannon explores the growth and development of Christianity in the second century. He focuses on Dionysios of Corinth, an early Christian bishop who worked to build a network of churches along trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean. Using archaeological evidence, and analysing Dionysios' fragmentary letter collection, Concannon shows how various networks and collectives assembled together, and how various Christianities emerged and coexisted as a result of tenuous and shifting networks. Dionysios' story also overlaps with key early Christian debates, notably issues of celibacy, marriage, re-admission of sinners, Roman persecution, and the economic and political interdependence of churches, which are also explored in this study. Concannon's volume thus offers new insights into a fluid, emergent Christianity at a pivotal moment of its evolution.

Early Christianity in Contexts

Early Christianity in Contexts
Author: William Tabbernee
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441245715

This major work draws on current archaeological and textual research to trace the spread of Christianity in the first millennium. William Tabbernee, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of Christianity, has assembled a team of expert historians to survey the diverse forms of early Christianity as it spread across centuries, cultures, and continents. Organized according to geographical areas of the late antique world, this book examines what various regions looked like before and after the introduction of Christianity. How and when was Christianity (or a new form or expression of it) introduced into the region? How were Christian life and thought shaped by the particularities of the local setting? And how did Christianity in turn influence or reshape the local culture? The book's careful attention to local realities adds depth and concreteness to students' understanding of early Christianity, while its broad sweep introduces them to first-millennium precursors of today's variegated, globalized religion. Numerous photographs, sidebars, and maps are included.

To Train His Soul in Books

To Train His Soul in Books
Author: Robin Darling Young
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813217326

To Train His Soul in Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture, extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy.

Early Christian Thinkers

Early Christian Thinkers
Author: Paul Foster
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281065160

This book introduces twelve key Christians from the second and third centuries, a formative period for the Church. These figures are: Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Perpetua, Origen, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Gregory Thaumaturgos and Eusebius. Each chapter is self-contained and requires no preliminary knowledge of the figure under discussion, making this an ideal book for laity and for undergraduates studying Christian origins or Patristics.

The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering

The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering
Author: Valeriy A. Alikin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004183094

Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a critical interpretation of all available sources, this book discusses the social and religio-historical background of the weekly gatherings of Christians and presents a fresh reconstruction of how the weekly gatherings originated and developed in both form and content. The topics studied here include the origins of the observance of Sunday as the weekly Christian feast-day, the shape and meaning of the weekly gatherings of the Christian communities, and the rise of customs such as preaching, praying, singing, and the reading of texts in these meetings.

Early Christian Lives

Early Christian Lives
Author: Athanasius
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1998-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0141907290

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.

Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity

Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity
Author: Robert J. Daly
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801036275

This new addition to the Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History series explores early Christian views on apocalyptic themes.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
Author: David K. Pettegrew
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199369046

"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--