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A history of early Christian literature / Justo L. Gonzalez.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781611649543
  • 1611649544
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History of early Christian literatureDDC classification:
  • 270.1 23
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  • BR60.A65
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The apostolic fathers -- The Greek apologists -- The acts of the martyrs -- The beginnings of apocryphal, popular, and heretical literature -- Irenaeus -- Clement of Alexandria -- Tertullian -- Other literature from the same period -- Hyppolytus -- Origen -- Other Greek authors -- Cyprian of Carthage -- Other Latin authors -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Athanasius -- Latin writers of the early fourth century -- Other Greek authors of the early fourth century -- The great Cappadocians -- Other Greek authors in the late fourth century -- Ambrose -- Jerome -- Other Latin authors of the late fourth century -- Christian literature in other languages -- Chroniclers and historians -- Augustine -- Figures surrounding Augustine -- Leo the Great -- John Chrysostom -- The Alexandrians -- The Antiochenes -- Further horizons -- The West -- The East
Summary: 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 controversies--the defining theological events of the early church--have 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 Augustine's 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
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The apostolic fathers -- The Greek apologists -- The acts of the martyrs -- The beginnings of apocryphal, popular, and heretical literature -- Irenaeus -- Clement of Alexandria -- Tertullian -- Other literature from the same period -- Hyppolytus -- Origen -- Other Greek authors -- Cyprian of Carthage -- Other Latin authors -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Athanasius -- Latin writers of the early fourth century -- Other Greek authors of the early fourth century -- The great Cappadocians -- Other Greek authors in the late fourth century -- Ambrose -- Jerome -- Other Latin authors of the late fourth century -- Christian literature in other languages -- Chroniclers and historians -- Augustine -- Figures surrounding Augustine -- Leo the Great -- John Chrysostom -- The Alexandrians -- The Antiochenes -- Further horizons -- The West -- The East

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 controversies--the defining theological events of the early church--have 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 Augustine's 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