Early Church

Phoebe: A Story [9781444791747]

Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape C…

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The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles [9781781252086]

Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world be…

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The Cities That Built the Bible [9780062366740]

Robert Cargill, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, is an archeologist, Bible scholar, and host of numero…

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In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World [9781540960672]

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture of t…

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Kingdom of Fools: The Unlikely Rise of the Early Church [9780340996263]

Fools. Rebels. Ignorant peasants. That's how the Roman world saw the first Christians. Led by fishermen, tax collectors and renegade Pharisees, the f…

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Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader [9780814756492]

Life and Practice in the Early Church brings together a range of primary texts from the church's first five centuries to demonstrate how early Christi…

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The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia [9780745953670]

This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle East towards Rome and i…

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Who Were the Church Fathers?

Who were the Church Fathers? What did they achieve? And why are their lives and writings considered so important? D'Ambrosio dusts off the dry theolog…

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A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography: a Reference Guide to Over 800 Christian Men and Women, Hereticsnd Sects of the First Six Centuries [9781619702691]

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A Social History of the Early Church [9781912552184]

In the first decades after Christ a small movement from the Middle East rapidly grew to become an empire-wide phenomenon. Soon there were established …

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Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain [9780292731325]

In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Azte…

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Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity [9782503541310]

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Biblical Studies: Early Christianity - Bloomsbury Academic Collections [9781474228947]

This fascinating set of ten titles maps the beginnings of the Christian faith and the historical events that surround its foundation. Subjects covered…

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Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes [9780823209675]

For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire-Constantinople, the New Rome, or Byzantium. …

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Call Down Lightning: What the Welsh Revival of 1904 Reveals About the End Times [9780785219071]

God Is Up to Something Big The Bible dedicates more space to prophecy than to any other subject. These prophetic portions of Scripture have received a…

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Celtic Saints of Scotland, Northumbria and the Isle of Man [9781781556016]

Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, focuses on the sites where these early Christians live…

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Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza and the Nile Delta [9789774167775]

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast…

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Christianity and Monasticism in the Fayoum Oasis: Essays from the 2004 International Symposium of the Saint Mark Foundation and the Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society in Honor of Martin Krause [9789774248924]

Christianity began in the large and fertile Fayoum oasis of Egypt's Westem Desert as early as the third century, and its presence has endured to the p…

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Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church [9780281071319]

While scholars have long regarded the second century as one of the most decisive stages in the history of Christianity, there are no introductory surv…

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Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE [9780801451423]

For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups d…

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