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The Lost History of Christianity
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Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins |
In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, wi… |
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Jesus Wars
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Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins |
Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these co… |
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The people's Jesus
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Robin Scroggs |
"Seeking the patterns of thought that shaped early beliefs about Jesus as the Christ, the late Robin Scroggs explores the social settings that sparked the primary christological themes and traces the… |
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Retrieving Nicaea
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Khaled Anatolios |
Khaled Anatolios offers a historically informed theological study of the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, showing its relevance to Christian life and thought today. --from publisher descri… |
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Sin
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Paula Fredriksen |
"Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning histori… |
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Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians and the Martyrdom of Polycarp
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Paul Hartog |
This commentary on Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians and the Martyrdom of Polycarp includes extensive introductions, the Greek or Latin texts, facing English translations, and substantial comment… |
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"On the ecclesiastical hierarchy"
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite |
The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites. Dionysiu… |
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Attitudes to Gentiles in ancient Judaism and early Christianity
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David C. Sim,James S. McLaren |
This volume describes the attitudes towards Gentiles in both ancient Judaism and the early Christian tradition. The Jewish relationship with and views about the Gentiles played an important part in J… |
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Order and (dis)order in the first Christian century
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F. Gerald Downing |
Articulate first century Mediterranean society, Jewish and Christian included, expressly favoured harmonious order in society, in individuals, in communication, and in thought. Its common basis was t… |
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Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell
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Meghan Henning |
Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek a… |
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Atheist delusions
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David Bentley Hart |
Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion's most passionate antagonists -- Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others -- have publishers competi… |
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