A new history of early Christianity

Charles Freeman
Book - 2009
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Main Author: Freeman, Charles, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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245 1 2 |a A new history of early Christianity /  |c Charles Freeman. 
260 |a New Haven :  |b Yale University Press,  |c 2009. 
300 |a xvi, 377 p., [16] p. of plates :  |b ill., facsims, maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Part one: Beginnings -- A trial -- The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD -- Jesus before the Gospels -- Breaking away : the first Christianities -- What did Paul achieve? -- The letter to the Hebrews -- Fifty years on : the Gospel writers reflect on Jesus -- John and the Jerusalem Christians -- Creating a New Testament -- No second coming : the search for stability -- Part two: Becoming Christian -- Toeholds in a wider empire -- Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews -- Was there a gnostic challenge? -- The idea of a church -- To compromise or reject : confronting the material world -- The earliest Christian art -- Celsus confronts the Christians -- The challenge of Greek philosophy -- Origen and early Christian scholarship -- New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity -- Victims or volunteers : Christian martyrs -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three: The imperial church -- The motives of Constantine -- Debating the nature of God -- The stifling of Christian diversity -- The assault on paganism -- 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop -- The art of Imperial Christianity -- An obsession with the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God. 
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