A new history of early Christianity /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2009.
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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.