Ancient Christianity
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Author | : Andrew B. McGowan |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441246312 |
An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.
Author | : Virginia Burrus |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 1451419465 |
The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline. Popular fiction, childrearing and toys, rituals of inclusion, the beginning of veneration of saints and shunning of heretics, the ascetic impulse, food practices—all these and more lend color and texture to the story of a "people's" Christianity in this formative stage.
Author | : R. A. Markus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521339490 |
Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.
Author | : Robert Austin Markus |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9780472109975 |
Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity
Author | : Bernard Green |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567032507 |
of the Pope." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Tim Hegedus |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820472577 |
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author | : Cornelia B. Horn |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebrek Ek |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161502354 |
This volume brings together studies of a diverse collection of sources ù patristic texts, apocrypha, medicinal treatises, hagiography, pseudepigrapha, papyri, and more ù illuminating how children mediated the relationship between Christian thought and society in late antiquity.
Author | : Charles Freeman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 030012581X |
"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.
Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674545133 |
Perhaps more than any other cause, the passage of texts from scroll to codex in late antiquity converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity and enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. Guy Stroumsa describes how canonical scripture was established and how its interpretation replaced blood sacrifice in religious ritual.
Author | : Rod Bennett |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-09-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1681491915 |
What was the early Church like? Contrary to popular belief, Rod Bennett shows there is a reliable way to know. Four ancient Christian writers - four witnesses to early Christianity - left us an extensive body of documentation on this vital subject, and this book brings their fascinating testimony to life for modern believers. With all the power and drama of a gripping novel, this book is a journey of discovery of ancient and beautiful truths through the lives of four great saints of the early ChurchClement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyons. "A treasure! The early Church and its teachings come to life in this story. Did the first Christians believe what you believe? Buy this book, read the words of the early Church Herself, and fall in love with the historic Church that Christ Himself founded." - David Currie, Author, Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic "Rod Bennett has immersed himself in the fascinating writings of four early Fathers of the Church and has made the discovery from reading them that sincere and attentive readers of them ought to make. The author's imaginative account of these four great Church Fathers is not only an excellent introduction to their work; it is a convincing rendering of what the early Church must really have been like. This is an important new contribution to Christian apologetics." - Kenneth Whitehead, Author, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic