A New History of Early Christianity - Hardcover

Freeman, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030012581X ISBN 13: 9780300125818

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2009

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Book by Freeman Charles

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"'A masterful book, and a pleasure to read.' Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow"

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The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. "A New History of Early Christianity" shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. Charles Freeman's meticulous historical account of Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century A.D. to the emergence of Western and Eastern churches by A.D. 600 reveals that it was a distinctive, vibrant, and incredibly diverse movement brought into order at the cost of intellectual and spiritual vitality. Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable 'triumph' of a single distinct Christianity, Freeman shows that there was a host of competing Christianities, many of which had as much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated. Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief', and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 030012581X
• ISBN 13: 9780300125818
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400