Early Christianity : a brief history /
by Lynch, Joseph H.
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxi, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195138030 (pbk.); 0195138031 (pbk.); 9780195138559 (hardcover); 0195138554 (hardcover).Subject(s): Geschichte | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600Online resources: Table of contents Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jesus -- The Jewish context of the Jesus movement -- The Greek and Roman context of early Christianity -- The Jesus movement in the first century -- Christian diversity in the second and third centuries -- The emergence of a proto-orthodox Christian consensus: bishop, creed, and canon of scripture -- Roman society and the Christians -- Christian intellectuals -- Proto-orthodox Christian communities in the third century -- Diocletian, the great persecution, and the conversion of Constantine -- The Christian empire and the imperial church -- The government of the church -- The Trinitarian controversy -- Jesus, the God/Man -- Worship and piety in the Christian empire -- The ascetic movement -- Fourth- and fifth-century Christian thinkers -- Conversion and Christianization -- The eastern and western churches go their separate ways -- Epilogue: Muhammad and Islam.
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