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Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300098396
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Author : Bernard Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567032507
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Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300118848
Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300060836
Drawing on both primary texts and archaelogy, Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins inthe Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century.
Author : Ralph Martin Novak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567018407
The rise of Christianity during the first four centuries of the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later direction of all world history. Yet, for all that has been written on early Christian history, the primary sources for this history are widely scattered, difficult to find, and generally unknown to lay persons and to historians not specially trained in the field. In Christianity and the Roman Empire Ralph Novak interweaves these primary sources with a narrative text and constructs a single continuous account of these crucial centuries. The primary sources are selected to emphasize the manner in which the government and the people of the Roman Empire perceived Christians socially and politically; the ways in which these perceptions influenced the treatment of Christians within the Roman Empire; and the manner in which Christians established their political and religious dominance of the Roman Empire after Constantine the Great came to power in the early fourth century CE. Ralph Martin Novak holds a Masters Degree in Roman History from the University of Chicago. For: Undergraduates; seminarians; general audiences
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : 0300226632
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."
Author : W. H. C. Frend
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451419528
Traces the early history of the Christian church from Jewish Palestine prior to Christ's birth to the sixth century monastic movement, and explains how Christianity survived under a variety of cultures
Author : Carl Sommer
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 168149616X
Carl Sommer presents a popular study of the faith and life of the early Christians in the first two centuries after Christ. Using documentary evidence and archaeological records, Sommers reconstructs the lives of the early Christians in order to "introduce the treasures of early Christianity to a large number of modern readers". By studying how the early Christians believed and lived, we can learn many valuable lessons on what to avoid and what to strive for today. The Roman world had many facets that are strikingly similar to elements of modern life. Sommer's aim is to help the reader learn how to transform modern culture with the power of the Gospel as was first done in the centuries of the early Church.
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300105988
Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken (the author of The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity) chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. He provides an introduction to early Christian thought on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, and shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
Author : Niko Huttunen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004428240
In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of “recognition” Huttunen describes a situation in which the parties can come to terms with each other without full agreement. Huttunen provides examples of non-Christian philosophers recognizing early Christians. He claims that recognition was a response to Christians who presented themselves as philosophers. Huttunen reads Romans 13 as a part of the ancient tradition of the law of the stronger. His pioneering study on early Christian soldiers uncovers the practical dimension of recognizing the empire.