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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: new history of early Christianity
  name:
    name part: Freeman, Charles
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: kyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part one: Beginnings -- A trial -- The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD -- Jesus before the Gospels -- Breaking away : the first Christianities -- From history to myth, from Jesus to Christ : what did Paul achieve? -- The letter to the Hebrews -- Fifty years on the Jesus of the Gospels -- 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 : infiltrating Greek culture -- Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews -- Was there a gnostic challenge? -- The idea of a church -- To compromise or reject -- 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 : the problem of Christian martyrdom -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three: The imperial church -- The motives of Constantine -- Debating the nature of God -- Theodosius and the stifling of Christian diversity -- The assault on paganism -- 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop -- An obsession with desire : Jerome and the temptations of the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools, Justinian and the silencing of debate -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.
  note: Charles Freeman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Church history
    temporal: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
  classification: BR162.3 .F73 2009
  classification: 270.1
  identifier: 9780300125818 (ci : alk. paper)
  identifier: 030012581X (ci : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009012009
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090323
    record change date: 20151111082714.0
    record identifier: in00002524964