A New History of Early Christianity

Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Chri...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: It is not simply for rhetorical flourish that politicians so regularly invoke God's blessings on the country. It is because...

Reducere. An internationally recognized scholar highlights the important role the North African church played in the development of Christian thought. This a...

Reducere. Christianity and the Christian Church of the First Three Centuries is the first volume in Baur's five-volume history of the Christian Church. It an...

Reducere. This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspec...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

Reducere. In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged st...

Immediately after the Gospels, the New Testament takes up the history of the early Christian Church, describing the works of the twelve disciples, ...

Reducere. This insightful history sheds light on the early Christian church of Assyria, during the time of the Sassanid Persian Empire that ruled from the 2n...

Since the early days of Christianity a tension has existed between the authority of the Bible and the authority of the Church. This has been furthe...

DescriptionIn Kyrios Christos, Wilhelm Bousset argues that the Hellenistic Church's declaration of "Jesus as Lord" is a transformation of the pre-C...

Reducere. R. W. Morgan proposes that St. Paul introduced Christianity to Celtic Britain, and that the Christian church and the first ancestors of the modern ...

DescriptionFrom the Very Beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on ...

Presents a new interpretation of sacred objects found in pagan Viking graves as indicating their introduction by Christian missionaries and re-exam...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: J. StevensonEditor: W. H. FrendThis sourcebook of primary texts illustrates the history of Christianity from the first cent...

Reducere. Oskar Skarsaune makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism and ...

Reducere. Celtic Christianity-the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages- has gained a great deal of atte...

DescriptionEthelbert Stauffer (1902 - 1979) was a German theologian who taught New Testament studies and ancient history at the University of Bonn ...

Reducere. In this first volume of the new History of Medieval Canon Law series, Lotte K ry presents a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systema...

Reducere. DescriptionMinister, teacher and author James Stewart reveals how Paul the Apostle developed the Christian religion in the 1st century AD, shedding...

Reducere. Women in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christ...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn G. Paton narrates his eventful life as a missionary to the New Hebrides - modern-day Vanuatu - in a frank and vivid manner. Beginni...

Reducere. Book of the YearHow did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? W...

Reducere. Jesus' preaching was first and foremost about simple living, pacifism, and vegetarianism; he never intended to create a new religion separate from ...

Reducere. Translated by Stanley F Conrad. Set around the dawn of Christianity with amazing historical accuracy Quo Vadis? won Sienkiewicz the Nobel Prize. Wr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Patricia DaileyIn The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the hi...

Reducere. In this volume, a world-renowned scholar of early Christianity updates and expands her classic survey of the writers and writings of the golden age...

Reducere. This thorough, well-sourced history of the early Christian church follows its origins in the Apostolic Age, through its growth during and after the...

Reducere. Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the ...

John Boswell s National Book Award winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking ...

DescriptionThis commentary by preacher and theologian G. Campbell Morgan explains Paul's epistle to the Romans, and how man's salvation is to be fo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe writings from the postapostolic period of the early church (ca. 70-150 CE), known as the Apostolic Fathers, comprise the earliest ex...

Reducere. The writings from the postapostolic period of the early church (ca. 70-150 CE), known as the Apostolic Fathers, comprise the earliest extant Christ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

Reducere. Description: Edith Schaeffer lovingly encourages Christians to embrace the Jewishness of their faith. When the early church repudiated its Jewish r...

Reducere. Written by the late Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield. Re-edited and re-printed by Bruce R. Booker under permission of The Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Serv...

Reducere. A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of...

Reducere. Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isa...

Reducere. In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and histo...

Reducere. Saint Paul was perhaps the most important evangelizer in the early Church, baptizing scores into a burgeoning Christianity. An Apostle and a martyr...

In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale B. Martin presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzin...

DescriptionRobert Eisenman is the author of The James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls series (2012), The New Testament Code: The Cup ...

Sufism is Islam's main mystical tradition. There are Sufi orders in almost all Muslim countries around the world, but not all Sufis accept the same...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICEWinnter of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical AssociationWinner of the Byron Ca...

Reducere. This thoroughly revised edition of Bruce M. Metzger's classic work is the most up-to-date manual available for the textual criticism of the New Tes...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: This fresh and stimulating work is the first book entirely given to the subject of Moses and Mosaic allusions in the Gospel...

From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saint...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Herbert Box discusses here a pseudepigraphic work of the Old Testament; the Apocalypse of Abraham. A prime example of the early a...

The life of Constantine was written by Eusebius of Caesarea (260 - 339 AD) in the 4th century in honour of Constantine the Great (272 - 337 AD). Ho...

A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholarsSince its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical exper...

Exploring Biblical Backgrounds provides students and teachers with a rich compendium of ancient primary sources that form essential readings for st...

Reducere. Sergius Bulgakov is widely considered to be the twentieth century's foremost Orthodox theologian, and his book The Comforter is an utterly comprehe...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early ch...

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke "Ro...