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"Introducing Early Christianity offers a fascinating survey of the most important aspects of the life, beliefs and practices of the early church from the first to the mid-fifth century." "The thematic approach of this book seeks to overcome the limitations of viewing one event after another, though it can be effectively used alongside a chronological history. Numerous sidebars assemble pertinent facts or offer close-up glimpses of particular aspects...
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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 Jerusalem and subsequent crucifixion and ending with the destruction of the temple--led to the separation between the followers of Jesus and other Jews. Topics include the following: 1) whether Jesus actually intended to found the Christian Church; 2) the ways...
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"It is Alvar Ellegard's view that even the basic facts about the life of Jesus are fictional: Jesus was not born in the time of Augustus Caesar (27 B.C.-14 A.D.). He was not baptized by John. He was not sentenced to death by Pilate. And he never roamed Palestine as a wandering preacher and miracle worker. In fact, none of Jesus' supposed contemporaries ever saw him in the flesh but only through visions, as the Christ raised by God to heaven."--Jacket.
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" ... examines the alternative Christian ideas propagated by the Gnostics, Sethians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Encratites, and Montanists ... Special attention is given to sects that presented the greatest challenges to the developing orthodoxy: the Hermeticists, the Manicheans, and the Neoplatonists." Also includes material on "the secret Gospel of Mark and the Gospels of Mary and Thomas, plus the newly discovered Gospel of the Savior."
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Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the "Age of Reason" was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason's authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous...
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"With the millennium comes Two Thousand Years; a more in-depth and evocative study of the history of Christianity than ever before. In volume one of this lavish companion to the major London Weekend Television series, conceived and produced by Melvyn Bragg, Peter Partner tells the story of the birth of Christianity from its Jewish roots in the first century, to its spread through the Roman Empire and beyond, the loss of Jerusalem to Islam and the...
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Nearly two thousand years before the Roman Empire, a group of Celts wandered into the Mediterranean basin, establishing a home in the region of Galatia, modern-day Turkey. They brought with them their political and economic systems, their cultural practices, and their religious traditions. Paul of Tarsus visited Galatia and established churches there. But after his visit, troubling news reached him. Despite Paul's teaching, the Galatian churches were...
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For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her centrality in Christian devotion. Gathering together fresh information from often neglected sources, including early liturgical texts and Dormition and...
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Two distinguished scholars blend archaeology and social history in a new version of the genesis of Christianity. Richard A. Horsley and Neil Asher Silberman reveal how the message of Jesus and Paul was profoundly shaped by the history of their time and by the circumstances and social conditions of the congregations to whom they preached. The authors draw on a wealth of newly uncovered historical information and archaeological discoveries: among others,...
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