TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rousseau,Philip
TI  - The Early Christian Centuries
SN  - 9781317890515
AV  - BR165 
U1  - 270.1 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Église
KW  - Histoire
KW  - ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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