Early Christianity /
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| Author / Creator: | Humphries, Mark. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description: | xii, 276 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Classical foundations |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6429261 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: how to use this book
- 1. What is early Christianity and why does it deserve study?
- The shape of early Christianity
- Approaching early Christianity in the twenty-first century
- 2. Tradition and revelation: the historical quest for early Christianity
- Discovering early Christianity in the age of Constantine
- Early Christianity from late antiquity to the middle ages
- Renewal, reform, and the origins of critical scholarship
- The rise of modern scholarship
- Towards modernity: early Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- 3. The search for early Christianity: sources and their interpretation
- Christian literature
- Jewish and pagan literature
- Documentary sources and material remains
- Using the sources
- 4. Messiahs and missions: contexts for the origins and spread of Christianity
- Christian origins and the problem of Judaism
- Mission and conversion: the expansion of early Christianity
- Case study: inscriptions and the missionary journeys of Paul
- 5. Doctrine and power: orthodoxy and organization in early Christianity
- How many bishops attended the council of Nicaea?
- The ideal of unity in early Christianity
- Organization and personnel
- Ritual
- Orthodoxy and heresy
- Truth, tradition, text
- Case study: the Nag Hammadi discoveries and early Christianity
- 6. Confronting Babylon: early Christianity and the Roman empire
- An age of persecutions?
- Christian alienation from Roman society
- Christian attitudes to the Roman empire
- Towards Christendom: an uneven progress
- Case study: Pliny the Younger and the Christians
- 7. Discovering early Christianity
- Points of departure
- Source materials
- Specialist journals
- Bibliographical guides to chapters 3-6
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
