Early Christianity : a brief history, Joseph H. Lynch

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Early Christianity : a brief history, Joseph H. Lynch

Title remainder

a brief history

Statement of responsibility

Joseph H. Lynch

Instantiates

• Early Christianity : a brief history

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, 2010

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Proto-orthodox Christian communities in the third century
• Diocletian, the great persecution, and the conversion of Constantine
• The Christian empire and the imperial church
• The government of the church
• The Trinitarian controversy
• Jesus, the God/Man
• Worship and piety in the Christian empire
• The ascetic movement
• Fourth- and fifth-century Christian thinkers
• Conversion and Christianization
• Jesus
• The eastern and western churches go their separate ways
• Epilogue: Muhammad and Islam
• The Jewish context of the Jesus movement
• The Greek and Roman context of early Christianity
• The Jesus movement in the first century
• Christian diversity in the second and third centuries
• The emergence of a proto-orthodox Christian consensus: bishop, creed, and canon of scripture
• Roman society and the Christians
• Christian intellectuals

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276274630

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

xxi, 266 pages

Isbn

9780195138559

Lccn

2008049590

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, maps

Record ID

.b41270897

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(OCoLC)276274630