The Early Christian Centuries.

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Author / Creator:Rousseau, Philip.
Imprint:Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (342 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304052
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ISBN:9781317890515
1317890515
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Summary:Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and the beginnings of medieval European polities. With a combination of rare tact and acuity, Philip Rousseau takes the measure of a generation of scholarship on early Christianity and the late Roman world. He stresses the importance of shifting historical consciousness, the continuity and development of ideas, and the urge for social respectability. Paying the greatest attention to the 'inner' compone.
Other form:Print version: Rousseau, Philip. Early Christian Centuries. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780582256538