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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Timeline of Christian History -- Introduction -- 1. Christian Beginnings -- The Setting -- The Roman Empire -- Palestine -- Judaism -- The First Christians -- The Resurrection -- Jesus (Peter Walker) -- Pentecost -- The Christian Community -- Divisions and Disagreements -- A theology of mission: Paul (Jonathan Hill) -- Christian Writings -- The Faith of the Christians -- Living in the Last Days -- Faith in Christ -- The 'New Israel' -- Life in the Church -- The Christian Rites -- Leading the Community -- The Spread of Christianity |
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Church and Synagogue -- Christianity in the Empire -- Beyond the Empire -- 2. The Young Church -- The Roman Empire -- Christianity in the Empire -- Becoming a Christian -- Leading the Community -- The Christian Life -- Ignatius of Antioch (Thomas Weinandy) -- The Catacombs -- The Christian Problem -- Hellenistic Culture -- Hellenistic Philosophy -- Hellenistic Religion -- Other Religions in the Empire -- The Hellenizing of Christianity -- The Decline of Jewish Christianity -- Institutions and Rites -- Hellenistic Theology -- Heresy, Orthodoxy and the Birth of Theology -- The New Prophecy |
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Ebionism -- Gnosticism -- The Foundation of Orthodoxy -- A Christian philosophy: Origen (John McGuckin) -- The Role of Scripture -- 3. Christian Rome -- The Conversion of Constantine -- Christians in a Christian Empire -- The Arian Conflict -- Arius -- The Council of Nicaea -- The Crisis Deepens -- Athanasius, Hilary and Gregory of Nazianzus (Andrew Louth) -- The Crisis Resolved -- The Monks -- Antony of Egypt -- The Desert Fathers -- The Monastic Ideal -- New Disputes -- Jovinianism -- Pelagianism -- Augustine (Andrew Knowles) -- Schism -- The Empire Crumbles -- The Christological Controversy |
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Cyril of Alexandria (Thomas Weinandy) -- 4. Africa, the Middle East and the Missions East -- The Monophysite Movement and the Byzantine Empire -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (Paul Rorem) -- The Monophysites and the Middle Eastern Wars -- Monophysitism Outside the Empire -- The Armenian Church -- Ethiopia -- The Nubian Kingdoms -- The Church of the East -- A Nestorian Church? -- Eastern Spirituality, from Ephraim the Syrian to Isaac of Nineveh (John Healey) -- Missions to the East -- Central Asia -- The Early Chinese Church -- The Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty -- The Malabar Church |
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Nestorians in Indonesia -- The Coming of Islam -- The Church of the East under Islam -- Nubia in the Age of Islam -- Ethiopia in the Age of Islam -- New Dynasties, New Wars -- The Sabbatarian Controversy -- 5. The Byzantine Empire -- Byzantium and the Orthodox Church -- Emperors, Churches and Heaven on Earth -- The Monasteries -- Christ on Earth and Christ in Paint: The Controversies -- The Three Chapters -- Monotheletism -- From Monotheletism to Iconoclasm -- The Isaurians -- The Female Emperor and the Second Council of Nicaea -- The Final Phase -- Other Nations, Other Churches -- Rome |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Church history.
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Christianity.
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church history.
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Christianity.
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Christianity
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Church history
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781912552511 |
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1912552515 |
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