Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110812657
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This work has established itself as a classical text in the field of New Testament studies. Written in a readable, non-technical style, it has become an indispensable textbook and reference for teachers, students, clergy, and the educated layperson interested in a scholarly treatment of the New Testament and its background in the Judaic and Greco-Roman world.
A History of Early Christian Literature
Author: Justo L. González
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611649544
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological controversiesthe defining theological events of the early churchhave long provided the framework with which to understand the development of early Christian belief. In this groundbreaking work, esteemed historian of Christianity Justo González chooses to focus on the literature of early Christianity. Beginning with the epistolary writings of the earliest Christian writers of the second century CE, he moves through apologies, martyrologies, antiheretical polemics, biblical commentaries, sermons, all the way up through Augustines invention of spiritual autobiography and beyond. Throughout he demonstrates how literary genre played a decisive role in the construction of theological meaning. Covering the earliest noncanonical Christian writings through the fifth century and later, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to students studying the theology of the early church.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611649544
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological controversiesthe defining theological events of the early churchhave long provided the framework with which to understand the development of early Christian belief. In this groundbreaking work, esteemed historian of Christianity Justo González chooses to focus on the literature of early Christianity. Beginning with the epistolary writings of the earliest Christian writers of the second century CE, he moves through apologies, martyrologies, antiheretical polemics, biblical commentaries, sermons, all the way up through Augustines invention of spiritual autobiography and beyond. Throughout he demonstrates how literary genre played a decisive role in the construction of theological meaning. Covering the earliest noncanonical Christian writings through the fifth century and later, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to students studying the theology of the early church.
History and Literature of Early Christianity
Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110812657
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This work has established itself as a classical text in the field of New Testament studies. Written in a readable, non-technical style, it has become an indispensable textbook and reference for teachers, students, clergy, and the educated layperson interested in a scholarly treatment of the New Testament and its background in the Judaic and Greco-Roman world.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110812657
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This work has established itself as a classical text in the field of New Testament studies. Written in a readable, non-technical style, it has become an indispensable textbook and reference for teachers, students, clergy, and the educated layperson interested in a scholarly treatment of the New Testament and its background in the Judaic and Greco-Roman world.
Books and Readers in the Early Church
Author: Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300069181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300069181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
Author: Frances Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521460835
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521460835
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher Description
Early Christianity and Its Sacred Literature
Author: Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
More than sixty color pictures by noted photographer Richard Cleave enhance the more than fifty black and white images, maps, and charts."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
More than sixty color pictures by noted photographer Richard Cleave enhance the more than fifty black and white images, maps, and charts."--BOOK JACKET.
Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature
Author: Claudio Moreschini
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9780801047190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Early Christian writings form a body of literature that has shaped Western culture as a whole, as Enrico Norelli and Claudio Moreschini demonstrate in this comprehensive book. The first six centuries of Christian experience impacted art and developed a philosophy that faced opposition, resolved internal conflicts, transposed itself into medieval civilization, and continues to influence culture today. Available for the first time in English, Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature highlights the special character of the gospel message, the nucleus of every Christian literary form. The earliest Christian works from the first through the fourth centuries are presented along with respected contemporary writings in the first volume. The second volume moves to the Golden Age of Christian literature. The major personalities of the time--Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, all writers of the highest rank--are matched with Greek-speaking authors such as Athanasius, the Cappadocians, and John Chrysostom, thinkers to whom present-day Christians turn once again for spiritual direction. This two-volume edition organizes the material in chronological order. Each segment's detailed discussion concludes with an up-to-date bibliography. It also includes a general bibliography and each volume includes an index of authors and anonymous works. Specialists in classics and medieval studies as well as general theologians, art historians, archaeologists, and other students of culture will find in this work an in-depth survey, quality scholarship, and an original approach.
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9780801047190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Early Christian writings form a body of literature that has shaped Western culture as a whole, as Enrico Norelli and Claudio Moreschini demonstrate in this comprehensive book. The first six centuries of Christian experience impacted art and developed a philosophy that faced opposition, resolved internal conflicts, transposed itself into medieval civilization, and continues to influence culture today. Available for the first time in English, Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature highlights the special character of the gospel message, the nucleus of every Christian literary form. The earliest Christian works from the first through the fourth centuries are presented along with respected contemporary writings in the first volume. The second volume moves to the Golden Age of Christian literature. The major personalities of the time--Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, all writers of the highest rank--are matched with Greek-speaking authors such as Athanasius, the Cappadocians, and John Chrysostom, thinkers to whom present-day Christians turn once again for spiritual direction. This two-volume edition organizes the material in chronological order. Each segment's detailed discussion concludes with an up-to-date bibliography. It also includes a general bibliography and each volume includes an index of authors and anonymous works. Specialists in classics and medieval studies as well as general theologians, art historians, archaeologists, and other students of culture will find in this work an in-depth survey, quality scholarship, and an original approach.
History and Literature of Early Christianity
Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110857561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110857561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
No detailed description available for "History and Literature of Early Christianity".
The History and Literature of the Early Church
Author: James Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Literary History of Early Christianity
Author: Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers of the church
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers of the church
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
History of the World Christian Movement
Author: Dale T. Irvin
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567088666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This thorough, lucid, solidly researched book, the first of two volumes, charts the history of global Christianity.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567088666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This thorough, lucid, solidly researched book, the first of two volumes, charts the history of global Christianity.