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The Early Christian Centuries.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781317890515
  • 1317890515
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Early Christian Centuries.DDC classification:
  • 270.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BR165
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Giving a shape to early Christian history; 2 Paul and the Jewish past: an apostle and his world; 3 Jesus of Nazareth: portraits of a saviour; 4 Individual virtue and its social setting; 5 Churches as learning communities; 6 Heroes and survivors: Christians engage with the world; 7 The Christian empire, a contested experiment: Constantine and his successors; 8 A crisis of authority; 9 An ancient legacy and its post-Roman future; Epilogue: the price of success; Further bibliographical notes and acknowledgements; Index.
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)799886

Print version record.

Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Giving a shape to early Christian history; 2 Paul and the Jewish past: an apostle and his world; 3 Jesus of Nazareth: portraits of a saviour; 4 Individual virtue and its social setting; 5 Churches as learning communities; 6 Heroes and survivors: Christians engage with the world; 7 The Christian empire, a contested experiment: Constantine and his successors; 8 A crisis of authority; 9 An ancient legacy and its post-Roman future; Epilogue: the price of success; Further bibliographical notes and acknowledgements; Index.

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.