The Early Christian Centuries
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The Early Christian Centuries

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The Early Christian Centuries

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Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and the beginnings of medieval European polities.With a combination of rare tact and acuity, Philip Rousseau takes the measure of a generation of scholarship on early Christianity and the late Roman world. He stresses the importance of shifting historical consciousness, the continuity and development of ideas, and the urge for social respectability. Paying the greatest attention to the 'inner' components of Christian life, the resulting story captures fully the major figures: Paul, the gospel writers, the early 'apologists', and the great figures of the 'patristic' age, including the Cappadocian Fathers, Augustine and Gregory the Great.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317890508
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Giving a shape to early Christian history
  9. 2 Paul and the Jewish past: an apostle and his world
  10. 3 Jesus of Nazareth: portraits of a saviour
  11. 4 Individual virtue and its social setting
  12. 5 Churches as learning communities
  13. 6 Heroes and survivors: Christians engage with the world
  14. 7 The Christian empire, a contested experiment: Constantine and his successors
  15. 8 A crisis of authority
  16. 9 An ancient legacy and its post-Roman future
  17. Epilogue: the price of success
  18. Further bibliographical notes and acknowledgements
  19. Index