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The rise of Christian beliefs
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Heikki Räisänen |
Heikki Raisanen offers a historical survey of the roots and first growth of the thoughts, values, and practices of the early Christians and explains the evolution of Christian belief in terms of vita… |
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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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Constantine
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Paul Stephenson |
This book is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian. In 312 A.D., Constantin… |
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Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism
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Runar M. Thorsteinsson |
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Defending Constantine
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Peter J. Leithart |
Leithart reads the original ancient, the seminal secondary, and lots of other sources to contend that Constantine was a believer and a conciliator who sought theological agreement for the political s… |
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Cities of God
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Rodney Stark |
How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Chris… |
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And man created God
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Selina O'Grady |
At the time of Jesus' birth, thousands of people were leaving their families and tribes behind and flocking into brand new multi-ethnic cities. The world was undergoing the first phase of globalizati… |
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Athanasius and Constantius
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Timothy David Barnes |
As the high-ranking Bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373, Athanasius came into conflict with no fewer than four Roman emperors -- Constantine himself, his son Constantius, Julian the Apostate, and th… |
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The darkening age
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Catherine Nixey |
Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages.
"A bold ne… |
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Tried by fire
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William J. Bennett |
In this moving and accessible narrative, Tried by Fire speaks across centuries to offer insight into the people and events that shaped the faith that continues to shape our lives today. |
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Quest for the Historical Apostles
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W. Brian Shelton |
The stories and contributions of the apostles provide an important entrée into church history. However, the legends of the apostles after the New Testament are confusing and steeped in myth. This hi… |
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Memory and identity in ancient Judaism and early Christianity
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Tom Thatcher |
"This volume applies theoretical principles, along with related aspects of Schwartz's model and the work of other significant memory theorists, to a number of case studies from ancient Jewish and ear… |
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Authority and Performance
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Hagit Amirav |
One can hardly exaggerate the importance of the church councils in the 5th and 6th centuries. They provide us with great insights into the situation in the late Roman Empire and particularly into the… |
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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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Slandering the Jew
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Susanna Drake |
As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander--such as the accusations Paul leveled agai… |
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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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Partings
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Hershel Shanks |
When did Judaism and Christianity become two separate faiths? Had the process already begun in the decades following Jesus' crucifixion, or did it take centuries for the first serious and inexorable … |
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From Jesus to the church
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Craig A. Evans |
This study traces the tumultuous history of the very first followers of Jesus. Specifically, author Craig A. Evans looks at how a chain of events from 3-7 CE--beginning with Jesus's entry into Jerusa… |
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Light from the Gentiles
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Abraham J. Malherbe |
Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse… |
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