Music in Early Christian Literature

Music in Early Christian Literature
Author: James McKinnon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1989-09-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521376242

A collection of 400 passages on music from early Christian literature.

Books and Readers in the Early Church

Books and Readers in the Early Church
Author: Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780300069181

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.

Writing the History of Early Christianity

Writing the History of Early Christianity
Author: Markus Vinzent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1108480101

Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards. This book will interest teachers and students of New Testament studies from around the world of any denomination, and readers of early Christianity and Patristics.

Early Christian Ireland

Early Christian Ireland
Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521363950

A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Author: Lynn Cohick
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441207996

Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.

The Cambridge History of Christianity

The Cambridge History of Christianity
Author: Augustine Casiday
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781107423633

This volume in the Cambridge History of Christianity presents the 'Golden Age' of patristic Christianity. After episodes of persecution by the Roman government, Christianity emerged as a licit religion enjoying imperial patronage and eventually became the favoured religion of the empire. The articles in this volume discuss the rapid transformation of Christianity during late antiquity, giving specific consideration to artistic, social, literary, philosophical, political, inter-religious and cultural aspects. The volume moves away from simple dichotomies and reductive schematizations (e.g., 'heresy v. orthodoxy') toward an inclusive description of the diverse practices and theories that made up Christianity at this time. Whilst proportional attention is given to the emergence of the Great Church within the Roman Empire, other topics are treated as well - such as the development of Christian communities outside the empire.

Dictionary of Early Christian Literature

Dictionary of Early Christian Literature
Author: Siegmar Doepp
Publisher: Herder & Herder Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780824528003

The long-awaited successor to Berthold Altaner's Patrologie handbook, the Dictionary of Early Christian Literature presents the life and work of Chrisitan authors up to the eighth century and an assessment of their lasting influence on the Christian tradition. The Dictionary offers complete and precise information as well as an updated bibliography in an easy-to-use alphabetical arrangement. Articles on authors provide a brief description of their lives, a presentation of their works, and an assessment of their invluence on the Christian tradition. Other articles deal with types of works and their particular characteristics. Despite the wealth of articles, movements and developments within the centuries can be easily grasped, providing valuable insight into the formation of the Christian tradition as we understand it today.

Shapers of Early Christianity

Shapers of Early Christianity
Author: Roland H. Worth, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0786482281

In 100 A.D., Christianity was practiced only by a small, oppressed minority. Three hundred years later, Christianity had become one of the world's major religions. But this change did not happen easily. The imperial government of Rome, intellectual tradition and battles within the church itself influenced the transformation. Every viewpoint had its champions and opponents and whether they were "defenders of the faith" or those whom history later labeled heretics, they were part of the early evolution of Christianity. This volume discusses more than 50 figures who played a role in the transformation from primitive Christianity to early Medieval Catholicism. As it examines the lives and influence of imperial rulers such as Constantine, proponents of the intellectual tradition including Gregory of Neocaesaria and Julius Africanus, and early Bible translators such as Tatian, Origen and Jerome, the work provides a fascinating look at Christian history.